A yacht voyageLetters from high latitudes; being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam," to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . of hollow wood, weighing about a quarter of a pound, intowhich is fitted the wearers back hair ; so that perhaps,after all, there does exist a more inconvenient coiffure thata Paris bonnet. Hardly had we taken off our hats, and bowed a thou-sand apologies for our unintentional rudeness to the fairinhabitant of the green trousers, before a couple of Lappgentlemen hove in sight. They were dressed pretty muchlike their companion, except that an
A yacht voyageLetters from high latitudes; being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam," to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . of hollow wood, weighing about a quarter of a pound, intowhich is fitted the wearers back hair ; so that perhaps,after all, there does exist a more inconvenient coiffure thata Paris bonnet. Hardly had we taken off our hats, and bowed a thou-sand apologies for our unintentional rudeness to the fairinhabitant of the green trousers, before a couple of Lappgentlemen hove in sight. They were dressed pretty muchlike their companion, except that an ordinary red night- X.] LAPP gentlemen: 167 cap replaced the queer helmet worn by the lady j and theknife and sporran fastened to their belts, instead of beingsuspended in front as hers were, hung down against theirhips. Their tunics, too, may have been a trifle of the three were beautiful. High cheek-bones,short noses, oblique Mongol eyes, no eyelashes, and enor-mous mouths, composed a cast of features which their. A. ijvpp ladys bonnet. burnt-sienna complexion, and hair like ill-got-in hay didnot much enhance. The expression of their countenanceswas not unintelligent; and there was a merry, half-timid,half-cunning twinkle in their eyes, which reminded me alittle of faces I had met with in the more neglected dis-tricts of Ireland. Some ethnologists, indeed, are inclinedto reckon the Laplanders as a branch of the Celtic , again, maintain them to b6 Ugrians; while a fewpretend to discover a relationship between the Lapp lan-guage and the dialects of the Australian savages, and simi- 168 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. [X lar outsiders of the human family; alleging that as succes*sive stocks bubbled up from the central birthplace of man-kind in Asia, the earlier and inferior races were graduallydriven outwards in concentric circles, like the rings pro-duced by the throwing of a stone into a pond; and thatconsequently, those who dwell in the uttermost ends
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