and _Swedland_; and _Scaliger_ after him saies that against their enemies they were couragious: and _Petr. Claud._ reports they had a King of their own called _Motle_, and that _Haraldus Pulcricomus_, tho he had conquered the Countries round about, could not subdue them; but all this doth not evince their courage: for whatsoever is said of this Prince _Motle_ is nothing at all to the purpose, being all taken out of the history of _Snorro_, which speaking of _Motle_, and something of his skill in Magick, has not a word of his or his Peoples courage. And ’tis manifest that _Ziegler_ could have no ground for what he said, unless from such histories as that of _Snorro_, which therefore only seem’d true because there were none extant more likely; for in his time the _Laplanders_ were subject to the _Swedes_: unless we had rather believe that he took the _Laplanders_ and the _Biarmians_ to be the same, ascribing to the one People, what was said of the other. There is indeed mention in _Saxo_, of severall Wars of the _Biarmians_, but those not managed by courage, but Magick and Enchantments: so that it no way follows, that because they continued for many Ages a free People, that therefore they were valiant. But whatever becomes of the _Biarmians_, ’tis sure enough that the _Laplanders_ are far from being stout or warlike, who must first fight against their nature, before they can resist an enemy. Besides their innate cowardise, they are strangely prone to suspicion and jealousy, being conscious of their own weakness, and so exposed to all attemts upon them: a consequent whereof is that they are also revengefull; endeavouring to prevent those mischeifs which upon the slightest occasions seem to threaten them, by the death and ruine of the Persons that caused their suspicion, helping themselves herein, by conjuration and magick. Of this _Pet. Claud._ gives us a memorable instance, in one, that having attemted to mischeif his enemy, who was secured by countercharms, after long attendance surpriz’d him asleep under a great stone, which by a spell he made break to pieces, and kill him. The women, especially when grown old, cannot brook any suddain provocation, but upon the least indignity offered fly out into passion, and are hurried to the most wild transports that madness can dictate. The _Laplanders_ besides are very notorious cheats, and industrious to over-reach each other in bargaining: tho heretofore they had the reputation of plain dealing and honesty. So that ’tis probable that they took up their present practice, having bin first cheated by those Strangers with whom they dealt, and now think it best to be before hand with one another. It is farther observable that they take great plesure, if they happen to outwit any one; imagining that tho they are hopeless to overcome by manhood and courage, they have a nobler triumph over the minds of those whom they circumvent. They are also noted to be of a censorious and