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It was early in the morning, shortly after leaving the tent of the Laplander, they had chanced upon the track of the bear. After following it for nearly a mile, it conducted them to a narrow gorge or ravine, lying between two rocky ridges. The ravine itself was not more than ten or a dozen yards in width, and its bottom was filled with snow to the depth of several feet.
The season was advancing, still the captain of the "Laplander," anxious to get a full ship, cruised backwards and forwards in the hopes of killing one fish more. At length that object was attained, but one of the boats was knocked to pieces, and two of her crew drowned.
I recall a little old bent-over woman of seventy-odd years up in northern Sweden, a Laplander. She had come a long three days' journey on her snow-shoes to the meetings. Night after night as I talked through interpretation her deep-set black eyes glowed and glowed. But when one night an hour or more was spent in voluntary prayer she needed no interpreter. And as I listened I needed none.
Storms of sleet drove against the window-panes, and there was even a very damaging night-frost, while that dreadful scourge, which nobody in his senses except Kingsley can ever have liked, the east wind, literally pervaded the whole place, and went whistling through the surrounding trees and ruins in a way calculated to make even a Laplander shiver.
In the accounts I have read of the maritime Laplanders, I find many characteristics common to both tribes: the Laplander is of a swarthy complexion, so is the Esquimaux; the Laplander is distinguished by high cheek-bones, hollow cheeks, pointed chin, and large mouth, so is the Esquimaux; the Laplander wears a thick beard, so does the Esquimaux; the Laplander's hair is long and black, so is that of the Esquimaux; the Laplanders are, for the most part, short of stature, so are the Esquimaux; and the dress, food, and lodging of both peoples are nearly the same.
There are in the human race, beings as different from one another as man is from a horse or a dog. What conformity or resemblance do we find between some men? What an infinite distance between the genius of a Locke, of a Newton, and that of a peasant, of a Hottentot, or of a Laplander!
"Yes, I know," said the fisherman abruptly, a cloud passing over his face as though he disliked being reminded of a dead child. "It's not worth while to spend one's life grieving," said the Laplander. "I suppose it isn't." "Now I'm thinking of adopting another child. Don't you think it would be a good idea?" "That depends on the child, Ola." "I will tell you what I know of the girl," said Ola.
That seems to be a kind of fanaticism founded on the prejudices of education, which induces a Laplander to place the terrestrial paradise among the snows of Norway, and a Swiss to prefer the barren mountains of Solleure to the fruitful plains of Lombardy.
Nay rather the lowest circle of the furthest and fiercest everlasting fires and thither do I commend her! Farewell!" Rapidly muffling himself up in his wraps, he strode out of the house. He sprang into his sledge, throwing a generous gratuity to the small Laplander who had taken charge of it, and who now ventured to inquire "Has the good Lovisa left us?" Gueldmar burst into a hard laugh. "Good!
How the young Prince prepared a petition to his mother, the Duchess, in favour of Sidonia Item, of the strange doings of the Laplander with his magic drum. "Alas!" said her Grace, "I perfectly remember the horrible sorcerer. One spring I was at the hunt with your father near Penemunde, when this wretch suddenly appeared driving two cows before him on a large ice-field.
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