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wearing long skin coats, pointed fur caps and leather shoes. 
It was most interesting to watch them catching the deer with 
lassoes, and to see the wonderful skill with which they drove 
their sledges. The reindeer is verily their all in all, and takes 
the place of cattle, sheep, horse and dogs. The milking of the 
deer was one of the chief attractions in this Lappic exhibition. 
Our visitors were unspoiled children of Nature, and they no 
doubt wondered what we could see in their simple household 
goods, and in themselves, to arouse so much curiosity. 
My experience with the Laplanders taught me that 
ethnographic exhibitions would prove lucrative; and no 
sooner had my little friends departed than I followed up 
their visit by.that of other wild men. Our next guests came 
from the Sudan—as was only natural, having regard to the 
extensive intercourse I then had with that region. The 
attractions of this Nubian caravan were greatly increased by 
the number of domestic animals which the people brought 
with them, their great black dromedaries, for instance, arous- 
ing much interest among the visitors to my Gardens. 
_ Being desirous of carrying on my new anthropological 
enterprise al] the year round—in winter, as well as in summer 
—I bethought me of the Eskimos, those dwellers in the 
Arctic of whom we had all heard so much in connection 
with polar expeditions, but who had never yet been seen in 
the heart of Europe. It might be possible, I thought, to 
bring a small party of these people to Hamburg, where they 
would indubitably cause a great sensation. In the spring of 
1877, therefore, I engaged a young Norwegian, by name 
Adrian Jacobsen, and despatched him to Greenland for the 
purpose of inducing a few Eskimos to accompany him back 
to Europe. The Danish Government were most obliging, 
and not only at once gave their permission, but also conveyed 
Jacobsen to their Arctic colony in a State steamer. They 
voyaged up the west coast of Greenland for a considerable 
distance to a bay known as Jacobshavn, in lat. 69. Here 
my traveller succeeded in persuading half a dozen natives to 
