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thing he had to grasp was that there are Finlanders 

 and Finns, and that the two races are absolutely 

 distinct. The native race of Finns have a language 

 and a type, slightly Mongolian, of their own. The 

 Finlanders are of Swedish descent, and are largely 

 mixed with Scottish families who migrated to Sweden 

 in the time of Gustavus Adolphus. Intermarriage 

 between Finns and Finlanders is very rare. Doubt- 

 less when Sweden lost Finland in the early days of last 

 century, many patriotic Swedes returned to Sweden. 

 The Scots, however, cared more for their homes than 

 for the question whether Sweden or Russia were to be 

 their sovereign state. They therefore remained and 

 carried on the traditions of earlier times. 



The morning of their arrival the Ramsay trio went 

 sight-seeing in Abo and stayed the night there, start- 

 ing early next morning for Helsingfors, where they 

 were allowed to go to the hotel. Their rooms had been 

 already engaged, but except to sleep and have early 

 breakfast, they were hardly ever in it. Mr. Auguste 

 Ramsay, a nephew of their original friend, prepared 

 a programme for the disposal of their time, and 

 nothing could have been more interesting. Helsingfors 

 lies in a deep bay with the island of Sweaborg in the 

 middle of it. Beyond it on the east and west are 

 scores of small wooded islands on which most of the 

 Helsingfors families have country houses, to which 

 they remove for the summer. Being August the 

 various Ramsays were in their summer quarters, and 



