

remfeer camped outside; and in the ev< 

 room was fifed with tl^ for tliey aD flodked in 

 to have a look at the foreigner*. Our host was a 

 very nice old settler, and we hedeomfcrtaHe qwuv 

 ten. We reached lockmock by twelve next day. 

 We had now only about eighty mOes farther, and 



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our journey was done* i* was wnner mavKe% 

 lockmock, and the place wa crowded with Lof*, 

 who had comedown to ieO their skins, etc,, and 

 buy their summer ntwassrifs; and I had a rery 

 good opportunity of observing the habiU of these 

 little vagabonds when they were out lor a spree, 

 and it is needless to say that two-thirds at them 

 were drunk, for, Eke all other buskmen, who, per* 

 haps, never see a glass of spirits for six months, 

 they do not lose their time when they come down 

 to a town or a place where spirits are to be got* 



It would be scarcely worth while to 

 much space in a description of the 

 Every child often years old mnst be fiumnar with 

 their dress and their habits, from what he has 

 read; but I may add that the original Lap, in his 

 frowzy old reindeer pefls and dirty old peaked 

 blue cap, scarcely realizes the idea that we have 

 formed of the Laplander whom we have 

 depicted in story book*. In the winter 

 whole dress is formed of reindeer-skm, except tike 

 cap, which, in afl we saw, waa high, and peaked 



