CHAPTER VIII.

Lapland, its divisions, extent, and boundaries--Its climate--Its inhabitants--Their physical characteristics--Dress of the Lapps--Their superstitions--The Mountain Lapps--Their migratory habits--Their _tuguria_, or huts, described--Milking the reindeer--Sledging and skating--A Lapp’s skates--A Lapp’s sledge--The Lapp hunters--Encounter with a bear--Intemperance of the Mountain Lapps--The Forest Lapps--Interior economy of a Lapland hut--Lapps at Bjorkholm--Racial characteristics of the Lapps--Habits and manners of the Lapps--The Lapp dialect--The Lapps and the Quénes--The stationary Lapps, and their _gârds_ 197–207