A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . far interiorand floated down the rivers that empty intothe White Sea. These steamers mostly loadat Archangel and carry their freight toEngland and Germany. Even this far norththere are farms. At one place they werequite large, say forty acres each, and whilethe houses are small they look crops seemed to be rye and grain is cut green and hung upon framesor stakes to ripen. A gentleman aboard saidthat rye and oats when mixed seemed to givea better crop than when either was plantedalone. He also told m
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . far interiorand floated down the rivers that empty intothe White Sea. These steamers mostly loadat Archangel and carry their freight toEngland and Germany. Even this far norththere are farms. At one place they werequite large, say forty acres each, and whilethe houses are small they look crops seemed to be rye and grain is cut green and hung upon framesor stakes to ripen. A gentleman aboard saidthat rye and oats when mixed seemed to givea better crop than when either was plantedalone. He also told me that each of thesefarmers had from twenty to forty cows, butthat at this time of the year they were upat the saters in the mountains; that therethe grass was good now and that the womenin charge milked the cows and made cheeseand butter for winter use. He also said thepotatoes were small, as they cut the tops forfodder. Friday, July stopped at Tromso early this morn-ing, but I was not up in time to see the on we saw some grand scenery as the. 1 A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 53 Steamer passed the entrance to Lyngenf are now in Lapland. Finmarken, as itis called by the Norwegians, takes its namefrom the Finns, or, as they are now generallycalled, the Lapps. They are the extremenorthwest branch of the Mongolian raceand have lived here from time , these skin-clad nomads lead theirwandering lives just as their ancestors did inprehistoric times. During the night of win-ter, when the Northern lights flicker andflash in green and yellow and red, theMountain Lapp on his **ski speeds acrossthe snow sheet that covers the plateau; or,hitching the fleet footed reindeer to thelow, little *pulk, in which he sits warmlywrapped in furs, goes flying over the snow-clad hills behind his antler-crowned lives with and on the reindeer. He tendsthe large herds of tame deer with the aid ofhis small dogs, that are always his faithful,clever companions an
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