Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam", to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . A LAPP L.\DY. tunics, too, may have been a trifle shorter. None of thethree were beautiful. High cheek-bones, short noses,oblique. Mongol eyes, no eyelashes, and enormous mouths,composed a cast of features which their burnt-sienna com-plexion, and hair—like ill-got-in hay—did not much expression of their countenances was not unintelligent;and there was a merry, half-timid, half-cunning twinkle in X.] ORIGIN OF THE LAPPS DOUBTFUL. •63 their ey
Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam", to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . A LAPP L.\DY. tunics, too, may have been a trifle shorter. None of thethree were beautiful. High cheek-bones, short noses,oblique. Mongol eyes, no eyelashes, and enormous mouths,composed a cast of features which their burnt-sienna com-plexion, and hair—like ill-got-in hay—did not much expression of their countenances was not unintelligent;and there was a merry, half-timid, half-cunning twinkle in X.] ORIGIN OF THE LAPPS DOUBTFUL. •63 their eyes, which reminded me a little of faces I had metwith in the more neglected districts of Ireland. Someethnologists, indeed, are inclined to reckon the Laplandersas a branch of the Celtic family. Others, again, maintainthem to be Ugrians; while a few pretend to discover arelationship between the Lapp language and the dialects ofthe Australian savages, and similar outsiders of the humanfamily; alleging that as successive stocks bubbled up from. A LAPP LADY S BONNET. the central birthplace of mankind in Asia, the earlier andinferior races were gradually driven outwards in concentriccircles, like the rings produced by the throwing of a stoneinto a pond; and that, consequently, those who dwell in theuttermost ends of the earth are, ipso fado, 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 personagewho derives his principal claim to notoriety from having been i64 LETTERS FROM HIGH LA TITUDES. [X. the first Lapp. Their acquamtance with any sacred history—nay, with Christianity at all—is very limited. It was notuntil after the thirteenth century that an attempt was madeto convert them ; and although Charles the Fourth andGustavus ordered portions of Scripture to be translated intoLapp
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