. Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schonner yacht "Foam" to Iceland . X.] A LAPP LADY. 153 of the green trousers, before a couple of Lapp gentlemenhove in sight. They were dressed pretty much like theircompanion, except that an ordinary red night-cap replacedthe queer helmet worn by the lady; and the knife andsporran fastened to their belts, instead of being suspendedin front as hers were, hung down against their hips. Their. tunics, too, may have been a triOc sliorter. None of the threewere beautiful. High cheek-bones, short noses, oblique Mon-gol ey
. Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schonner yacht "Foam" to Iceland . X.] A LAPP LADY. 153 of the green trousers, before a couple of Lapp gentlemenhove in sight. They were dressed pretty much like theircompanion, except that an ordinary red night-cap replacedthe queer helmet worn by the lady; and the knife andsporran fastened to their belts, instead of being suspendedin front as hers were, hung down against their hips. Their. tunics, too, may have been a triOc sliorter. None of the threewere beautiful. High cheek-bones, short noses, oblique Mon-gol eyes, no eyelashes, and enormous mouths, composed acast of features which their burnt-sienna complexion, andhair like ill-got-in hay did not much enhance. The expres-sion of their countenances was not unintelligent; and therewas a merry, half-timid, half-cunning twinkle in their eyes, i54 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. tx. which reminded me a little of faces I had met with in themore neglected districts of Ireland. Some ethnologists, in-deed, are inclined to reckon the Laplanders as a branch of theCeltic family. Others, again, maintain them to be Ugrians;while a few pretend to discover a relationship between theLapp language and the dialects of the Australian savages, andsimilar outsiders of the human family \ alleging that as suc-cessive stocks bubbled up from the central birthplace of
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