144 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



I am persuaded that iron might be found 

 there. 



June 3. 



We waited till about two o'clock in the 

 afternoon for the Laplander I had sent on 

 the expedition above mentioned, who at 

 length returned quite spent with fatigue. 

 He had made the requisite inquiries at 

 many of the huts, but in vain. He was 

 accompanied by a person whose appear- 

 ance was such that at first I did not know 

 whether I beheld a man or a woman. I 

 scarcely believe that any poetical descrip- 

 tion of a fury could come up to the idea, 

 which this Lapland fair-one excited. It 

 might well be imagined that she was truly 

 of Stygian origin. Her stature was very 

 diminutive. Her face of the darkest brown 

 from the effects of smoke. Her eyes dark 

 and sparkling. Her eyebrows black. Her 

 pitchy-coloured hair hung loose about her 

 head, and on it she wore a fiat red cap.' 

 She had a grey petticoat ; and from her 



