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have been able to learn abont the honest Lapps, than 
by sending yon the tourist’s stock specimen of a Lapp 
love-ditty. The author is supposed to be hastening in 
his sledge towards the home of his adored one:— 
“ Hasten, Kulnasatz! my little reindeer! long is the way, and 
boundless are the marshes. Swift are we, and light of foot, and soon 
we shall have come to whither we are speeding. There shall 
I behold my fair one pacing. Kulnasatz, my reindeer, look forth ! 
look around! Dost thou not see her somewhere —bathing ? ” 
As soon as we had thoroughly looked over the 
Lapp lady and her companions, a process to which they 
submitted with the greatest complacency, we pro¬ 
ceeded to inspect the other lions of the town; the 
church, the lazar-house,—principally occupied by Lapps, 
•—the stock fish establishment, and the hotel. But 
a very few hours were sufficient to exhaust the plea¬ 
sures of Hammerfest; so having bought an extra suit 
of jerseys for my people, and laid in a supply of 
other necessaries, likely to be useful in our cruise to 
Spitzbergen, we exchanged dinners with the Consul, 
a transaction by which, I fear, he got the worst of the 
bargain, and then got under weigh for this place,— 
Alten. 
