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Updated: May 18, 2025
I looked at the guide the kind Sea Lapps had provided for me. He was the man who had come with the reindeer. His name was Mikel. He was a nomadic Lapp, but had come to visit his sister, who had married a Sea Lapp. He was about four feet eight inches in height, well built, broad shouldered, nimble as a deer, about forty years old, with a face made by the wind as red as a ripe tomato.
One autumn day when I had crossed the mountains by the great Sulitelma glacier and was descending the eastern slope on my way to the Gulf of Bothnia, my Lapp guide and I saw a big brown bear in the distance, but as it was almost dark we decided not to go after him, for the country was very stony.
Under the equator is found the negro, in the temperate zones the Indo-European, and toward the pole the Lapp and Esquimaux. They are as different as the climates in which they dwell; nevertheless, history, philology, the common traditions of the race, revelation, point to their brotherhood. How is it that climate can bring about such modifications in man?
Then again, although the Lapp has nothing worthy of the name of a house, he is an educated man, to a small extent. He can read, and, above all, he possesses the Word of God in a language which he understands. In bodily size, however, the Red Indian beats him; for as a race the Lapps are particularly small, though they are well proportioned and active.
It was a hard moment for the twins. People were looking at them and laughing, and the words, "Lapp! Lapp!" spoken in a tone of ridicule, could be heard on every side. "Let us go home," suggested Gerda, her face scarlet with shame at so much unpleasant attention. "No," said Birger stoutly, "let us stay right here and show that we don't care."
And he said politely to the fox: 'Good-day, friend! What have you got in your bag that makes such a strange sound? 'All the wealth my father left me, answered the fox. 'Do you feel inclined to bargain? 'Well, I don't mind, replied the Lapp, who was a prudent man, and did not wish the fox to think him too eager; 'but show me first what money you have got.
For she knew very well that he would come back again. "Nurse," said Torfrida to the old Lapp woman, when they were alone, "find out for me what is the name of this strange champion, and what he has beneath his beard." "Beneath his beard?" "Some scar, I suppose, or secret mark. I must know. You will find out for your Torfrida, will you not, nurse?"
There is a charming version in the Lapp story of the “Silk Weaver and her husband,” where we read, “Once upon a time a poor lad wooed a princess and the girl wanted to marry him, but the Emperor was against the match. Nevertheless she took him at last and they were wed together.” K. Pearson, The Truth about Woman, p. 70 note.
The men were clothed partly in deer-skin, partly in coarse cloth, and these garments were reduced by long service to a uniform dirty-brown colour. They showed signs of being slept in by night as well as worn by day. There was a schoolmaster amongst them. Only fancy, a Lapp schoolmaster, four feet nine or ten inches high!
They could not be shipped till they had themselves hauled down to the beach enough moss to feed them on their passage across the Atlantic. Between two hundred and fifty and three hundred were purchased, and three Lapp families hired to teach some of our local people how to herd them.
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