Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam", to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . with it, which I am bound to was in the streets of Hammerfest that I first set eyes on aLaplander. Turning round the corner of one of the ill-built houses, we suddenly ran over a diminutive little per-sonage, in a white woollen tunic, bordered with red andyellow stripes, green trousers, fastened round the ankles, andreindeer boots, curving up at the toes like Turkish her head—for, notwithstanding the trousers, she turnedout to be a
Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam", to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . with it, which I am bound to was in the streets of Hammerfest that I first set eyes on aLaplander. Turning round the corner of one of the ill-built houses, we suddenly ran over a diminutive little per-sonage, in a white woollen tunic, bordered with red andyellow stripes, green trousers, fastened round the ankles, andreindeer boots, curving up at the toes like Turkish her head—for, notwithstanding the trousers, she turnedout to be a lady—was perched a gay parti-coloured cap,fitting close round the face, and running up at the backinto an overarching peak of red cloth. Within this peakwas crammed—as I afterwards learnt—a piece of hollowwood, weighing about a quarter of a pound, into which isfitted the wearers back hair ; so that perhaps, after all, theredocs exist a more inconvenient coiffure than a Paris bonnet. Hardly had we taken off our hats, and bowed a thousandapologies for our unintentional rudeness to the fair inhabitant n,.\<f,»\i ii4^i\/^4FW^. 162 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. [X. 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
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