neighbours, readily engaged themselves, and effected their enterprize no less successfully. In this design, the plot of a particular person was most remarkable, as is related by _Ericus_, and recorded by _John Buræus_. One single man of the _Birkarli_ went towards _Lapland_ to way-lay the _Laplanders_ in their return from _Birkala_, (at this time no one inhabited on the North side of that allotment) and ordered his wife to cover him over with snow, in the middle of the way where the _Laplanders_ must necessarily pass over him. They came in the night time, and by their passing over him he knew there were fifteen, which were the chief among them, and to whom the rest were in subjection; when they were gone, he immediately arose out of the snow, and going some shorter way, set upon them at unawares, as they passed by, one by one, which is their usual way in travelling, and slew them one after another. None of those that followed perceived the first men slain, it being in the night time, and each of them at some distance from the others; till the last man finding his fellows killed, made a stout resistance, but the _Birkarla_ by the assistance of his wife got the victory, and slew him likewise. Thus the most powerfull of them being slain, the rest readily submitted. Some think the _Birkarli_ deluded them by a pretended truce, and that before it was expired, they assaulted them, not suspecting then the least danger, and killing several, subdued the Countrey, as far as the Northern and Western Oceans. We may easily collect from the truce mentioned here, that before their subjection to the _Swedes_ by the _Birkarli_, there was some kind of war betwixt both: besides, it was shewn above, that _Ladulaus_ could not bring them under his Crown. This perhaps may be _Zeiglers_ meaning, when he describes them as a warlike People, and free for a great time, that they also withstood the Arms of _Norway_ and _Sweden_, till they were forced at last to yeild; but what _Zeigler_ imputes to their valour, proceeded only from the contemt they were then in, as is plain from the opinion the _Moscovites_ gave of them. And there is little reason to suppose the _Swedes_ were not of the same, since they were overcome only by the allotment of _Birkala_; and _Ladulaus_ did not conquer them out of any fear he conceived of their forces, but by sleight, foreseeing the small advantages he should receive would not quit the charges of an Army. Thus the _Laplanders_ were brought in subjection by the subtilty and expence of private persons. About the year of our Saviour 1277, the _Birkarli_ had the autority over them; yet so as to acknowledg their dependance on the King of _Sweden_. Now whether all of them were thus overcome, as those that lived beyond the mountains of _Norway_, near the Sea, which are the _Finlanders_, or _Lappofinni_, is still in doubt, except we collect it from this, that all from the Northern and Western Oceans were certainly subjected. But whatever dispute