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reindeer camped outside ; and in the evening our 

 room was filled with them, for they all flocked in 

 to have a look at the foreigners. Our host was a 

 very nice old settler, and we had comfortable quar- 

 ters. "We reached Iockmock by twelve next day. 

 We had now only about eighty miles further, and 

 our journey was done. It was winter market at 

 Iockmock, and the place was crowded with Laps, 

 who had come down to sell their skins, etc., and 

 buy their summer necessaries ; and I had a very 

 good opportunity of observing the habits of these 

 little vagabonds when they were out for a spree, 

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

 were drunk, for, like all other bushmen, 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 waste 

 much space in a description of the Laplanders. 

 Every child of ten years old must be familiar with 

 their dress and their habits, from what he has 

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

 frowzy old reindeer pells and dirty old peaked 

 blue cap, scarcely realizes the idea that we have 

 formed of the Laplander whom we have seen 

 depicted in story books. In the winter their 

 whole dress is formed of reindeer- skin, except the 

 cap, which, in all we saw, was high, and peaked 



