The second is the boat-makers, which they make of Pine or Deale boards, not fasten’d with nails but sew’d together with twigs, as among the ancients with thongs, _Olaus Magnus_ and _Johannes Tornæus_ sayes with roots of trees, but most commonly with _Rain-deers_ nerves. When they launch these boats they caulk them with moss to keep out the water, and use sometimes two, sometimes four oares, so fasten’d to pegs in the sides, that one man may row with two. The third trade is the Carpenters, to make sledges, which are not all of the same shape, those they travel in, call’d _Pulca_ being made in the fashion of half a boat, having the prou about a span broad turned up, with a hole in it to run a cord thro to fasten it to a _Rain-deer_, and the poupe of one flat board: the body is built of many, which are fasten’d with wooden pegs to four or five ribs; they never go upon wheeles, but are convex and round, that they may roul any way, and more easily be drawn over the Snow. This description agrees with that sledg which I have, and the Testimony of _Herberstenius_, _Olaus Magnus_, and _Johannes Tornæus_. The fore part of them is cover’d with Sea-Calfs skin for about an ell, stretch’d upon hoops, least the Snow should come in, under which they put moss to keep their feet warm. These are about three ells long, but those that carry baggage, called _ackkio_, _ajefive_, are not cover’d any where. The people defend their goods from the weather, according to _Wexionius_, with raw flax: but that is not probable, because no flax grows there, and the use of flaxen garments is unknown, and therefore I believe they do it with skins or bark. In _Olaus Magnus_ lib. 17. cap. 25. there is a cart painted upon wheeles, the Author describes it in these words, _qui domestici sunt Rangiferi curulibus plaustris aptantur_, but what these _curulia plaustra_ signifie he does not explain. And since the Painter has drawn other things according to his own capacity, and understanding, I do not know whether he has not follow’d his own opinion more then _Olaus’s_ narration, but ’tis certain there are no wheele carts, for what they carry in Summer is put in dorsers upon _Rain-deers_. These Tradesmen make their sliding shoes, which because I have describ’d in the former Chapter, I need not now speak of. The fourth is making boxes and chests to lay up weapons and other things in, which are all of an oval shape, of which sort _Lodovicus Otto Bathoniensis_ gave me one. They are made of thin birch plancks, which are so contrived and bent into an Oval, that the pegs or twigs, with which they are fasten’d, are not perceiv’d. The lids are of one board, and for ornament often inlaid with _Rain-deers_ bones in diverse figures, which for better illustration you shall see describ’d at the end of this Chapter in the cut markt with the letter C.