mony among them cannot be of any long date, for the _Patacoon_ is but of later daies, and was never known before the discovery of the Mine in the Vale of _Joachim_. These _Patacoons_ they value singly at 2 onces of silver a piece, whence it appears that as they had no other mony, so neither did this pass currant among them, but only by weight, and as if it were in the Mass: and I beleive was not at all in use, untill they were forced to pay tribute in that kind, of which I have discoursed before, and shewed that it was but of late instituted. But what _Damianus_ means by his _permutatione tantum annonam & pecuniam acquirunt_, we cannot so easily guess; for we do not say that men barter and deal by exchange when mony is paid for a commodity: for to what end should those People seek after getting mony, which was in use neither among themselves nor their neighbours; so that perhaps here also we ought to read _nec pecuniam_, and then the sense runs, that they were not so sollicitous in getting mony, as in providing the more necessary things of life: altho neither is that true which he delivers of their provisions, as will appear from what follows. But whatsoever _Damianus_ means, it is most certain that in all their commerce they did but exchange one thing for another; and that to this day the same custom remains among them, who are now concern’d for no more mony then what is sufficient to pay their tribute. Only if there is any commodity among them of great and extraordinary value, that indeed is to be bought with mony. Their custom is now, not as formerly, to bargain by signs and nods, but either they use speech, (for there are many of them now that are skilled in that of their neighbours) or Interpreters, of which there are plenty enough among them. They with whom they trafic are for the most part their neighbours, on the one side the _Swedes_ and _Norwegians_, on the other the _Finlanders_, _Russians_, and _Moscovites_. Neither was it otherwise in old times, unless when they were under the power of the _Birkarli_, who endeavouring to get all the trade into their own hands, did more narrowly watch those that were nighest _Sweden_, that so they might exclude all but themselves from trafficking in any part of _Lapland_. The power that we read was given the _Birkarli_ over the _Laplanders_ by _Ladulaus_ the great King, I suppose, chiefly consisted in this; for the other speciall rights and priviledges, which they and their ancestors for a long time possessed, _Gustavus_ the first hath set down, as I have in another place declared.