52 TEAVEL, ADVENTUKE, AND SPOET. 



sleep, from which I did not emerge till we came in 

 sight of the sea, as represented by the arm of the 

 Varanger Fjord which runs past Vadsoe and Nyborg. 

 Its inmost part was frozen over for an extent of 

 several miles ; and as the road was bad, we preferred 

 travelling on the ice, over which we went at a rattling 

 pace. Very shortly after, we turned in at the town- 

 ship of Nyborg, having now completely left the wilds 

 behind us. One of our party, who had travelled with 

 a reindeer, had arrived half an hour before us. 



The road to Vadsoe leads along the shore of Var- 

 anger Fjord, and at some places dangerously skirts 

 the precipitous rocks which form the shore. At 

 such places great caution is necessary, as one false 

 step would without doubt send men and horses 

 literally ad undas. At Clubben, one of the most 

 dangerous spots on the route, the way runs along a 

 narrow platform, from which the rocks above and 

 below are almost perpendicular. Here we sometimes 

 felt ticklish about the possibility of getting on ; but 

 in spite of the difficulties which beset us, we managed 

 without accident to arrive at Vadsoe, passing on the 

 way several villages of the sea Lapps. These sea 

 Lapps are extremely miserable - looking creatures. 

 "When a nomad Lapp, or, as they call him, "fjeld 

 Lapp," loses all his reindeer, or from other causes is 

 debarred from following his usual mode of life, he 

 generally, but only as a last resource, settles down by 

 the sea-shore and endeavours there to eke out a 



