Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . > , 11 w Iff, ? ??? 3 • ESKutt ??-- : A LAPP LADY. tunics, too, may have been a trifle shorter. 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
Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . > , 11 w Iff, ? ??? 3 • ESKutt ??-- : A LAPP LADY. tunics, too, may have been a trifle shorter. 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, 154 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. [X. 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. A LAPP LADY S BONNET. mankind in Asia, the earlier and inferior races were graduallydriven outwards in concentric circles, like the rings producedby the throwing of a stone into a pond; and that conse-quently, those who dwell in the uttermost ends of the earthare, ipso facto, first cousins. This relationship with the Polynesian Niggers, the nativegenealogists would probably scout with indignation, beingperfectly persuaded of the extreme gentility of their only knowledge of the patriarch Noah is as a person-age who derives his principal claim to notoriety from having X.} SUPERS T1TI0N. 15 5 been the first Lapp. Their acquaintance with any sacredhistory—nay, with Christianity at all—is very limited. Itwas not until after the thirteenth century that an attemptwas made to convert them; and although Charles theFourth and Gustavus ordered portions of Scrip
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