out of the Borders of the Eastern _Bothnia_, and made them tributary, and the letters may not be ascribed to _Kurk_, but to _Ladulaos_, in which he had granted the _Birkarli_ the priviledge to receive tribute of the _Lapps_, and of trafficking with them, for it is not probable that _Kurk_, though he was their chosen Captain, was to have all the benefit of the _Laplanders_ to himself, so as by contract to tranfer to the _Birkarli_ his right. For the _Tavastii_ were either a free People and so shared among one another whatever they got, or else under some Prince, and so could not give another what was not their own, but their Masters. Besides if they did give _Kurk_ any thing, as some Villages, or the like, it was not from any bargain that they were to receive in its stead tribute from the _Laplanders_, but as a reward to himself for his pains and conduct in the war. But whatever may be said of _Kurk_ and the _Tavasti_, ’tis certain the _Laplanders_ never came originally from the _Russians_, nor as others think from the _Tartars_, but from the _Finlanders_, having bin driven out of their Country, and forc’t to change their habitations often, till at length they fixt in this Land where they now live: and that Country, which from the remove of its inhabitants was called _Lapland_, had the same name continued by the _Swedes_, who had conquered the greatest part thereof. For after the _Swedes_ had learnt from the _Finlanders_ that they were called _Lapps_, they also gave them the same name, then the _Danes_ took it up: then _Saxo_, afterwards _Ziegler_, then _Dam. Goes_, who had the account which he gives of the _Laplanders_ from _Ol._ and _Joh. Magn._ and so at last all the Country was called _Lapland_ from the Bay of _Bothnia_ Northwards, especially after it was made subject to the _Swedes_, except only that part which lies on the Coasts of _Norway_, which retained its antient name of _Finland_; as also that part towards the white Sea, called by the _Moscovites_, _Cajanica_, altho these sometimes call the inhabitants _Loppi_, which without doubt they took from their neighbours the _Finlanders_. CHAP. VII. _Of the Religion of the_ Laplanders.