Through Arctic Lapland . -J .^?fl-*^ 64 Through Arctic Lapland Our course swung througli half the points of thecompass as the water channels swerved to this sideand that, or the fords lay to our right or left, andthose exasperating carriers grew slower in their pace,and more frequent in their halts, and we had resignedourselves to another fifteen solid hours of torment,when a great streak of luck befell us. Between somebushes at the side of a long narrow lake there lay acanoe. She was pulled on to the bank and lay bottomupwards, and who she belonged to we did not know—or care. We were in the m
Through Arctic Lapland . -J .^?fl-*^ 64 Through Arctic Lapland Our course swung througli half the points of thecompass as the water channels swerved to this sideand that, or the fords lay to our right or left, andthose exasperating carriers grew slower in their pace,and more frequent in their halts, and we had resignedourselves to another fifteen solid hours of torment,when a great streak of luck befell us. Between somebushes at the side of a long narrow lake there lay acanoe. She was pulled on to the bank and lay bottomupwards, and who she belonged to we did not know—or care. We were in the mood then to havecheerfully annexed the Czars own private dinghyeven with sure foreknowledge that he wanted ithimself during the next half hour. And the carriersseemed to be similarly without scruple. The packswent down to the ground in quick time; the loppy-legged boy said something funny and laughed ; eventhe squint-eyed man smiled. The canoe was rolledon to her keel and shot into the water. The luggageand ourselves
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