By the former Discourse it plainly appears that in hunting they use severall Instruments and Weapons, in our next therefore it will be requisite to give some account of them. The first and most frequent is a bow three ells long, two fingers broad, and an inch thick, being made of Birch and Pine (which by reason of the resine in it is very flexible) and covered over with Birch bark, to preserve both from the weather. What _Lomenius_ saies of its being made of Rain-deers bones, must needs be false, since no bone can be so pliable as is required in the making of a bow; his words are these, _Rangiferi asperantur ossa in cultros & curvantur in arcus congeneribus feris trucidandis_, if he had left out _& curvantur in arcus_ he had spoke more to the purpose: but I believe he had this, besides many other things, to fill up his Journall from _Olaus Magnus_, who among the utensils these People have from the Rain-deers, saies the Fletchers much desire their bones and horns, from whence _Lomenius_ collects that bows are made of them. But it is evident that _Olaus_ meant not this bow, but a kind of cross-bow termed by the Germans _Armbrust_, and the French _Arbalestre_, which is impossible to be made of bone, but the handle might be adorned with it, because in these Northern parts they have no mother of Pearle, which other Countries perhaps make use of to this purpose. It was then a good plain wooden long-bow, which would not require an engine to bend it, but might be drawn with an hand only. And since I told you it was made of two pieces of wood, we will see next how they were joined together, which is with a kind of glew made of Perches skin well scaled, that melts in using like ours. They have also steel-bows, which are so strong, that when they bend them they must put their foot in a ring for that purpose at the head of them, and draw the string up to the nut, made of bone in the handle, with an iron hook they wear at their girdle. From their bows I pass to their darts and arrows, which are of two sorts, either pointed with iron to kill the larger beasts, or blunt without it like bolts, to kill the smaller. These points are not alwaies made of iron, but sometimes bones, which are fastned with glew into a hole bored with a hot iron at the end of a staff, and afterwards sharpened with a knife, or on a whetstone. But besides they use Guns, which they (as hunters do in other places) with a great deal of superstition enchaunt that they should never miss. These are made at _Soederhambn_, a town in _Helsingia_, famous for weapons, from whence the _Bothnians_ buy them, and sell them to the _Laplanders_: hence they have Gun-powder and bullets, or at least lead to make them: and sometimes _Norway_ furnishes them with all these. Spears they use only in hunting Bears, and are so little different from ours that they will not need a description. I come now to their other instruments relating to this sport, the cheifest of which are their shoes, with which they