The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . Club-flaih (Ironi Osterbotten, Finland. Cf. Chap. XXXVIII. and biographyof Printz, below.). A flail made from a small tree, a branch forming the handle. (Fnmi Osterbotten, hinland. ) G. Dwellings and Customs of Colonists. 365 runners which were made from small trees with natural bendsand they were so arranged that a large load of hay or graincould be loaded u
The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . Club-flaih (Ironi Osterbotten, Finland. Cf. Chap. XXXVIII. and biographyof Printz, below.). A flail made from a small tree, a branch forming the handle. (Fnmi Osterbotten, hinland. ) G. Dwellings and Customs of Colonists. 365 runners which were made from small trees with natural bendsand they were so arranged that a large load of hay or graincould be loaded upon them without difficulty. They werehitched to an ox or a horse by a pair of shafts, fastened to therunners. The pigs were generally allowed to run loose, but the cattleand horses were housed in barns during the winter barns of New Sweden were constructed along the sameprinciple as the dwellings and out of the same material. It isprobable the chickens in many cases shared the dwelling-houseswith the people, a custom found in Sweden and Finland downto a late period.^^ They were kept in a cage and the cock wasthe alarm clock in the morning. Jonas Stolt, writing in thefirst half of the nineteenth century, says: The chicken cagewas also a piece of furniture, which was found in almost everyhouse and for those, wh
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