. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. <t n§8 UP THE FJORP TO TROMSO. with a good sailing breeze, butnever with a single wave morethan a ripple, and bleak, bare, black mountains always rising precipi-tately out of the water. Half-way up the fjord they had an opportunity to take on board threeLapps, and carry them to their destination. They were a man and two women, the pilot said, but Scott declaredthat until they were sorted out for him he could not for his life tell totherfrom which. They keep grinning like Esquimaux, but what squatty little thingsthey are!
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. <t n§8 UP THE FJORP TO TROMSO. with a good sailing breeze, butnever with a single wave morethan a ripple, and bleak, bare, black mountains always rising precipi-tately out of the water. Half-way up the fjord they had an opportunity to take on board threeLapps, and carry them to their destination. They were a man and two women, the pilot said, but Scott declaredthat until they were sorted out for him he could not for his life tell totherfrom which. They keep grinning like Esquimaux, but what squatty little thingsthey are! Roy observed. See, this fellow doesnt come up to myshoulder. Theyre as broad as they are long. What makes them so big aboutthe waist ? Scott asked. Here the Lapps all grinned again. They could not understand Eng-lish, but they saw there was some joke, and laughed, never dreaming itwas about themselves. It was so ludicrous that the boys roared as the pilot explained that in :, ■ ■ . iiviit. z. S THE LAND OE THE MIDNIGHT SUN. 107 their primitive existence they had no Saratoga trunk or crocodile skinportmanteau, and when they were on the move, which was nearly all thetime, they packed the contents of the pantry, the wardrobe, and all theirhousehold furniture in the bosoms of their loose blouse waists. Great Scott! Considering all the incidents, it strikes me thosepeople must really be rather slim, Roy remarked, and the Lapps alllaughed again. Very soon they had an opportunity of seeing Lapps in abundance ;some of them decided improvements upon the first samples. Some worethe storhatten, or large hat, and some the torghatten, or little hat,
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