Show THE LAPLANDER AT roke HOME BY PROFESSOR we saw the lapp camp before us on a dry and pleasant grassy s space ace about two and a half inglish english miles irom from the sea some piles iles of sticks and mounds which seemed like i no human habitation first attracted attention the piles of sticks form as we found a sort of skeleton shed which can be enclosed in bad weather by a kind of rude rade tarpaulin they contain barrels cloaten cl oates and many nondescript utensils and stores i which in fine weather are exposed suspended pen ded from t the lie bare poles two low round mounds of turf overlaid sticks and branches branch in a most disorderly fashion 1 c composed I 1 the habitations of a multitude of men women and especially children childre 0 wh who 0 seemed at first sight to be countless their appearance uncouth lid and diminutive in the extreme wai was I 1 thought decidedly unprepossessing I 1 but al an attentive i ve survey survay brought out ont sonn more favorable features the count countenance nance was waa altogether unlike any I 1 had bad seen batby but by no I 1 means devoid of intelligence and even a certain sweetness of expression notwithstanding that our party was tolerably numerous they exhibited no signs either of distrust or shyness and whilst I 1 some of them entered into conversation i with one gentleman gentle m an from aronso who know knew a tittle little of their dialect and ad others went attended by bv several small active dogs to fetch som reindeer for our inspection from the heights beights the greater part remained quietly engaged in choir huts hats as we had fou d them quite regardless of our presence on inquiring into their occupation we were surprised to find them possesses posse sned of some excellent excellently v printed and wel ed books parti particularly a bible in the Fi finnish lanish tongue and a commenter com commentary mentar y each forming a quarto volume we found some of them also engaged in writing this liia wats a matter of surprise bhele we had been led to expect something approaching hi ang b barbarism ar b armin and we had soon a proof that their pretensions to religious religion 8 i impressions tin pres was in tot merely theoretical for they positively refused to taste the it 11 spirits rito which were freely offered to them and of which our party partook though it is well known that excessive and besotting drunkenness used to be the great sin of the tribes and still is of those who have not to order an and reli ion by the zealous efforts of the swedish missionaries particularly I 1 believe Ie Leo stadius ladius v and Sto oneth aho have im bably r ably labored amongst them the characteristic composure com of the people wa was a well shown in in a yoking 41 mother with rather at h r pleasing features f 0 who brought her infant of four in months old out of one of the huts buts and s seating herself on the sunny gunny side aid e of f it p proceeded in the most delibe deliberate fate way amagan le to pack up the ahe child for the night in its little woolen wooden cradle whilst half 1 a dozen of us looked on itano small curi osita the orade cradle was out cut aut of solid wood covered with leather flaps of which were so arranged as to lace across the top with leathern thongs the i inside as ide and the little pillow were rendered tolerably soft with reindeer mow moos and the infant fitted the space so exactly that it could stir neither hand nor foot yet made little resistance to the operation A hood protected the head I 1 while it admitted air freely wh when eq the was finished the little was speedily rocked asleep the elder children phildren were inquisitive but far from rude tend and they play played d nicely with one another I 1 the lapp hut is formed in interiorly teri orly of wood by rabah of curved carved ribs which unite nr near the center in a ring which is open and allows free esea escape 6 for the smoke the fire being lighted in in te the e cen ter of the floor the exterior is ii coveted covered with turf thedoor the door is of wood on one side the inmates recline on skins on the floor with their feet toward the fire and behind bebing them on a row of stones near the wall of the hut hat are their various ous u utensils tensia their clothes chiefly of tanned skins shins and woolen booen stuns stuffs I 1 looked very dirt dirty Y I 1 lhoir whole wealth consists in reindeer the two families who frequent this valley posses about seven hundred bundred deer we saw perhaps one fourth of that number aae AJ ew W were inspection info 1140 a circular eno enclosure losure of wooden paling where they are habitually milked one of the i men dexterously eft caught ng ht the themly the thorns 4 1 with a lasso or noose the deer are small but some of them oar rv immense bran branching ebing horns the weight of which they seem almost unable to support at As this season geison ther their long winter coat of hair came am off by handfuls they make a low grunting granting raim noise almost like a pj pig ig the milk is is small in quantity a and nd excessive excessive rich it was wag eleven at night when we we left the La and we reached the seaside sea side a few minutes mi wore before midnight it w was a glorious evening rife war warm aaen and d ruddy across the calm sound gonad it was more like a sut sunset at naples hapl than what I 1 had imagined in of midnight inthe arctic circle the town of aronso lay in com comparative para tive shadow and as we rowed aaroin across to our steamer we heard beard in the distance the not ot unmelodious chant of the russian sailors who w ho in boating and singing I 1 ng most moat of the night |