CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
2 ’93 
therein to depoftt either a fmall quantity of tobacco, or fomething 
that the deceafed was fondeft of when living. They fuppofed 
the felicity of a future Rate to conftft in feafting, fmoking to¬ 
bacco, drinking brandy, and fimilar amufements ; and they be¬ 
lieved that thefe enjoyments were to be participated in the other 
world in a higher degree of perfe&ion than they were experienced 
in this. Such was their idea of the blifs to be found in the life 
to come, in which they believed their rein-deer, as well as the 
reft of the brute creation, were to be equal partakers. 
It is a rule with the Laplanders, on the birth of a child, to af- 
ftgn a female rein-deer, with all her future offspring, as a provifton 
when the boy or gijl fhall be grown up, which he or fhe becomes 
entitled to, however the eftate may be difpofed of at the deceafe 
of the parents. By this provifton, the child fometimes becomes 
the owner of a confiderable herd. 
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