_Posse_; the other space being called _Lops_. The common door they used to make towards the South, and the other towards the North. The space on both sides, and the sides themselves they called _Loide_; here they made their bed chambers, the husband with his wife and children lying on one side, and the servants on the other. _Olaus Petri_ saies only the daughters lay on the side of the husband and wife, I believe, that their Parents might have them alwaies nigh them, and so take greater care to secure their honesty, whilst the sons in the mean time lay with the servants: but now the spaces that remain towards the doors they call _Kitta_, and are ordained for the use of the women, for in the space nigh the common door they are brought to bed. But that you may the better understand all this, I will here insert a description of the Area. A is the little door they call _posse_, B and C is called _lopps_, as is the place where the men lay up their hunting instruments. D and E are called _loide_, whereof one is the appartment of the Master of the Family and his wife, the other of the servants. F. G. is _kitta_, were the women are conversant. H. is the hearth, I. the door called _ox_; those three logs upon which they divide their flesh are the two that lay along towards I. and the 3^d crosswaies distinguishes from other parts the mens appartment, or _posse_. [Illustration] The 3^d thing we are to note in these sheds, is that they strew their floors with branches of Birch trees, least by the rain they should be wetted, and they use no other kind of pavement; only upon the boughs, for cleanliness sake, they lay skins of Rain-deers, on which they sit and lie. And these are the dwelling houses of the _Laplanders_, besides which they have also Store-houses in which they keep their commodities, especially flesh, fish, and such other provisions; these they call _Nalla_, and make thus: they cut the upper part of a tree off, so that the body remain four or five ells from the ground high, upon this trunk they place two rafters in the figure of an X, or S^t _Andrews_ Cross, and upon these they build their repository, making a door to it, and covering it with boards. There is one thing peculiar to these Store-houses, which is, that the door is not in the side, but bottom of them, so that when the _Laplander_ is come down, the door falls too, like a trap-door, and all things are safe. To these they go up by ladders which they make of the trunks of trees, in which they cut great notches like stairs. Now the reason why they place them so high, is because of the Bears and other wild beasts, who oftentimes pull them down, and to the great dammage of the Master eat all his provision; they used also to cut off the bark of the tree, and anoint the stock, so that neither mice nor wild beasts could be able to climb up for slipperiness. And perhaps these are the houses _Olaus magnus_ meant, when he said, they placed their houses upon trees for fear of wild beasts.