[720] See my paper on the Finns in Cassel's Storehouse of Information, p. 296.
[721] The fullest information concerning Finland and its inhabitants is found in the Atlas de Finlande, with Texte (2 vols.) published by the Soc. Géog. Finland in 1910.
[722] Laila, Earl of Ducie's English ed., p. 58. The Swedish Bothnia is stated to be a translation of Kwæn, meaning low-lying coastlands; hence Kainulaiset, as they call themselves, would mean "Coastlanders."
[723] A Boat Journey to Inari, Viking Club, Feb. 1, 1895.
[724] The Great Frozen Land, 1895, p. 61.
[725] The Great Frozen Land, p. 84.
[726] Cf. M. A. Czaplicka, Aboriginal Siberia, 1914, pp. 162, 289 n.
[727] Notes sur les Votiaks payens des Gouvernements de Kazan et Viatka, Paris, 1897. They are still numerous, especially in Viatka, where they numbered 240,000 in 1897.
[728] See especially Schafarik's classical work Slavische Alterthümer, II. p. 159 sq. and V. de Saint-Martin, Études de Géographie Ancienne et d'Ethnographie asiatique, II. p. 10 sq., also the still indispensable Gibbon, Ch. XLII., etc.
[729] Decline and Fall, XLII.