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LETTEES FEOM HIGH LATITUDES 
trousers, she turned out to be a lady—was perched 
a gay parti-coloured cap, fitting close round the face, 
A LAPP LADY. 
and running up at the back into an overarching peak 
of red cloth. Within this peak was crammed—as 
I afterwards learnt—a piece of hollow wood, weighing 
about a quarter of a pound, into which is fitted the 
