Mountain adventures in various parts of the world . nd the only wild beasts that couldpossibly give them any alarm or uneasiness are thewolves and bears. But these animals never attackhouses, as they procure sufficient nourishment byfollowing the wandering Laplanders with their rein-deer. . In one of the families we visited we witnessed avery tender and affecting scene, which convinced usthat sensibility is not banished from those northernlatitudes. At three oclock after midnight we en-tered a cabin, in which there were, besides the mas-ter of the house, his mother, his young wife, andtwo infa
Mountain adventures in various parts of the world . nd the only wild beasts that couldpossibly give them any alarm or uneasiness are thewolves and bears. But these animals never attackhouses, as they procure sufficient nourishment byfollowing the wandering Laplanders with their rein-deer. . In one of the families we visited we witnessed avery tender and affecting scene, which convinced usthat sensibility is not banished from those northernlatitudes. At three oclock after midnight we en-tered a cabin, in which there were, besides the mas-ter of the house, his mother, his young wife, andtwo infant children. They were fast asleep, and we NORTH CAPE. 183 waited for some time that we might awake themgently: they all of them lay on the ground, whichthey had covered with the branches and leaves ofthe fragrant and aromatic birch ; over these werespread some reindeer skins. They slept, as themaritime Laplanders do in general, with their clotheson ; but these, being very large and loose, occasionno inconvenience by impeding in any degree the. Island of Lofoden, North Cape. circulation of the blood. The wife awoke first, andcasting her eyes on one of our boatmen, whom sheknew, she was glad to see him, and entered intoconversation with him in Lapponese. The husbandand his aged mother also awoke soon after, but thechildren continued in their sound sleep. The oldwoman perceiving our Laplander, burst into a floodof tears; the young woman likewise wept, so did 184 MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES. the boatman; and so by instinctive sympathy didwe all, without knowing why. For a moment wepreserved a dead silence, when our interpreter hav-ing entered the cabin, and found us in tears, askedin Finnish the reason of all this sorrow. The occa-sion was this : the old woman had seen the boatmanabout a year before, when she was in perfect health,but since that time she had been seized by a fit ofapoplexy, which had totally deprived her of the useof speech. After this general emotion had subsided,we aske
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