Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam", to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . 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. A LAPP L.\DY. tunics, too, may have been a trifle shorter. None of thethree were b
Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam", to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . 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. A LAPP L.\DY. tunics, too, may have been a trifle shorter. None of thethree were beautiful. High cheek-bones, short noses,oblique. Mongol eyes, no eyelashes, and enormous mouths,composed a cast of features which their burnt-sienna com-plexion, and hair—like ill-got-in hay—did not much expression of their countenances was not unintelligent;and there was a merry, half-timid, half-cunning twinkle in X.] ORIGIN OF THE LAPPS DOUBTFUL. •63 their eyes, which reminded me a little of faces I had metwith in the more neglected districts of Ireland. Someethnologists, indeed, are inclined to reckon the Laplandersas a branch of the Celtic family. Others, again, maintainthem to be Ugrians; while a few pretend to discover arelationship between the Lapp language and the dialects ofthe Australian savages, and similar outsiders of the humanfamily; alleging that as successive stocks bubbled up from
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