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Of the Laplanders. , ^ n
land Shoes; if he hath neither of thefe, half a pound of dried lack. This is
the Tribute yearly received by the Crown of Sweden frdm Lapland, of which
the greatest part is commonly by the Kings gracious favor allowed for
the maintenance cf their PrWftS; as was (hewn in another place. Nov
becauSe it is fo far both by Sea and Land, before thefe commodities can
be brought to the Kings Storehoufes, befides the ordinary v,i\ they give
a pair of Lapland Shoes , which they call Haxapalka , that is the price fat
carriage. This is all they pay to the King of Sweden, but befides they are
tributary to the Crown of Danmark, and the great Duke of Mo/co’vy, not
as Subjects to thefe Princes , but upon the account of their receiving
fe-veral advantages Sr<">m their Dominions in their hunting and Sifhing. Thofe
that are thus, are all the allotments of Torva beyond the mountains, who
by reafon of the liberty thty have to bring dow n their Cattel from the
mountains into the vallies in the Summer time* near the Sea Shore ^ and
taking the opportunity fro;n thence of fishing, are taxed by the Danes, but
not at above half the rate that they pay to the Swedes. Thefe allotments
are called Jioutokeint, Artjorrara, Teno, anrl Vtzmcki. The Laplanders alfo
of the allotment of tnare 1n hiemi, are in the fame condition, wlio for
fiShing and hunting pay both to the Danes and Mofcovites as well as to the
Swedes: to the first one half, ro the othera third part of what the Swedes
receive. The tribute was in former time gathered when the Governor pleafed,
but afterwards only in the Winter, against which time it was all brought
into Storehoufes, each County having its proper place, for that purpoSek
But when the place for their Markets and.Fairs was determined, the Go*
vernor came thither and received it, which courfe they still take in this
bufinefs. That this was alfo the time for receiving it, will appear-from the
account I Shall give of their Fairs in the next Chapter:.
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CHAP- XIV- V
Of the Laplanders Fairs, and Ciijloms
in ’Trading.
TH a t tve may hot yet leave the Public concerns of the Lipli>.dersK
of which we have treated, let us proceed in the next place to confider
their Fairs and common Markets, in which what Customs thc-y anciently
uied is not So well known. Paulus Jovius faies that among the Laplander ’.
he that had any thing to fell, after he had expofed his Wares, went his way
and left them, and that the Chapman coming, and taking what was
fo-his turn , left in the place the full value thereof in white furrs or skins.
The reafon why they did not fpeak and bargain with their Chapmen, he
faies Was, becaufe they were a ruftic People, extreanily fearful, and ready
to run away from the very Sight of a Ship, or stranger. Others, that are of
a more probable opinion , confefs indeed that they ufed no words in
then-trading , but that it was not out of rusticity, warn of cunning, or the’like;
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