cloth, about their necks and back, and a bell, with which they are mightily pleased. They travell in these at what rate they will; but if upon a remove, alwaies slow, because of the weight of their goods, in which journies the man and his wife go first, and all the family come after. _Ziegler_ saies in 24 houres they can go 150 miles: _Herbersternius_ saies in a day 20 _German_ miles: but ’tis not to be believed that it is performed with one _Rain-deer_ in the day of 12 hours, except the waies be good and slippery, but they ordinarily go 12 14 or 16 _German_ miles in ten hours, which number doubled will make out _Zeigler_’s opinion: and that not with one _Rain-deer_ which is impossible to out so long, but that it must dy or be left to rest the next day. In this way of travelling the Women are as expert as the men, and _Olaus Magnus_ saies more. As the men and women travel together, so they help one another in fishing, and at baiting time to feed their cattle, which is evident in the _Rain-deer_, for the women take as much care of them as the men, and equally take the trouble to milk them: and in fishing ’tis manifest; for women in the absence of men, are very intent for some weeks at catching fish, which they gut and dry up for Winter. Their way of catching them is with Nets, and other instruments, as every where else. I know not what _Paulus Jovius_ meant, when he said they have a foolish way of fishing, except he refers to their hooks which are nor of Iron but Wood: they make them of _Juniper_ bent round: these they fasten to sticks, and throw them into the Rivers, and very easily take many large fishes. If they fish with a Cane or Whale-bone, the fisher never knows when the fish bites, but pulls up at a venture. Their way of fishing alters with the season, in the Summer usually with drag nets, between two boats, or else with spears like Tridents, but that they have more teeth. With these they strike pikes, especially when they ly sunning themselves near the top of the Water: they do the same by Night burning dry wood at the prow, by which light the Fish are enticed thither. In the Winter time they thrust nets under the ice to a banck side, and then by a great noise above drive the Fish to them; all these things the Women often do alone, which is the less to be wondered at, because every where in this Country there is a great multitude of Fish. Besides all these, they carry and cleave wood, and make hedges, with such like works, which are so inconsiderable as not to be worthy to enlarge our discourse. [Illustration] CHAP. XXIV. _Of their Divertisements._