but only granted from the crown of _Swedland_ to them to receive the profits, and upon that score every year they pay a certain tribute, which we have treated of before, so that there remains nothing else to be added here. CHAP. XXVIII. _Of their Cattel._ After our discourse of the inhabitants of _Lapland_, their Nature and manners, something is to be said of other things there remarkable. First of their Cattel, of which they have some common to other Nations, some proper only to themselves. They have no Horses, nor Asses, Oxen, nor Bulls, Sheep nor Goats. The inhabitants do not regard Horses, for the little use they have of them; Oxen, Sheep, Goats, they procure from their Neighbors, for the provision of meat, wool, and hides, and they keep them but one Summer, still killing them a little before Winter. The Beasts proper to _Lapland_ which no other Nation has, are Rain-deers, _Peucerus_ stiles them _Tarandi_, but without reason, for the Rain-deer compared with _Tarandus_ as ’tis described by _Pliny_, have scarce any thing a like, the _Tarandus_ having the bulk of an Ox, an head bigger than a stags, and hair as thick and rough as a Bears, which he can change into any color, as he shews in his 8^{th} book, but nothing of this agrees to the Raindeer, as we shall shew anon. Likewise _Gesner_ did erre in bringing this Animal from two divers species. ’Tis not known who imposed the name; but whatever become of the Etymology or imposition of the name, tho it seem to be of late times, the beast it self was long before known. The first that wrote of him was _Paulus Warnefrid_: he speaks there of a people which he calls _Scritobini_, which were doubtless the _Laplanders_, for he describes their cloths to be the same with those which the _Laplanders_ call’d _Mudd_, he affirms that the beast of which they had their hides was not unlike a Stag, which serves to prove that they were the _Rain-deer_, for so they are call’d by _Herbestenius_, _Damianus_, and _Olaus_, who tells us that they are something taller then a Stag: those which have broad horns (found most in the North) are less than others. But tis not the same thing to talke of tallness and bulk; for tho other Stags owe their height to their long legs, they have less bodies than the Rain-deer. They have 3 horns, 2 branching out backward, the third sprowting down their foreheads (which _Olaus_ observes is to guard them from the wild Beasts especially the Wolves.) _Lomenius_ speaks of 4 horns, 2 backwards and 2 forwards, as appears by his picture, in which the Artist falls short of the matter, as my draught which is more accurate will show: but _Albertus Magnus_ makes them have three rows of horns, for so _Jonstonus_ out of him, they carry saies he 3 horns, each breeding 2 horns more, which makes his head seem bushy. Two of these are bigger then the rest, which answer to the Stags horns, growing sometimes to that bigness as to be 5 cubits high, and are adorned with 25 branches.