These shoes are fastned to their feet by a with, not run through the bottom but by the sides, that it might not hinder their sliding, or wear out with often using, which is not expressed in _Frisius’s_ Picture, this is directly in the middle, and ti’d to the hinder part of the leg, as you may see in the figure. That which is often in _Olaus Magnus_, and set forth by _Frisius_, is a meer fancy and figment of an Italian Painter, that could not understand what these shoes were, but by describing them like long wooden broags turning up with a sharp point before: which is very idle, because the foot goes into it at the hinder part, and agrees not with _Olaus’s_ other cuts; for if the place of the foot were there, it could not endure so great a weight before it, or effect that for which this shoe was first invented: for they must tread firm upon the Snow, which they could not do if all the weight lay at one end; but when ’tis in the middle, that which is before and behind will keep the foot from sinking in. The way of going in them is this: they have in their hand a long staff, at the end of which is a large round piece of wood fasten’d, to keep it from going deep into the Snow, and with this they thrust themselves along very swiftly. This way of running they not only use in plain and even, but in the most rugged grounds, and there is no Hill or Rock so steep, but with winding and turning they can at last come up to the top, (which Pope _Paul_ the Third could not believe) and that which is a greater Miracle will slide down the steepest places without danger. These shoes they cover with young _Rain-deers_ skins, whose haires in their climbing run like brisles against the Snow, and keep them from going back. _Wormius_ saies they were cover’d with Sea Calf’s Skins, but I believe he talk’d of those, that the _Siæfinni_, or the Maritime people use. And this is the first instrument of hunting, which they use as well in other businesses in winter time, for they can pass no other way over the Snow, at which time they can out run any wild beast. The other instrument they use is a sledg, which altho it is fit for any journy, they use it in hunting especially the _Rain-deeres_, the description of which, because ’tis fit for all manner of carriages, I shall defer to another place. CHAP. XXI. _Of the_ Laplanders _Handycraft-trades_. Besides hunting, which is the cheifest, they have many other emploiments relating to their lives and fortunes, of which Cookery is the first: for what ever food they get by fishing, fowling, or hunting, the men dress and not the women. They therefore are quite ignorant of this Art, (which the men are not very expert at) and never use it but upon necessity, and in the absence of men.