7 6 TRAVELS 
Ration beneath the pulpit, and when the miniRer has pronounced 
one fentence of his fermon he Rops, and the fchool-maRer repeats 
it to the congregation, in the language of Lapland. The effeCl 
which the eloquence of the preacher, thus interrupted and muti¬ 
lated, muR have on his audience, it is not difficult to conceive. I 
confefs I would have given, I know not how much, to have heard 
this Laplander, and known what kind of tranflation he made of the 
Danifh miRionary’s fermons. As for the miniRer, who underRood 
not a word of what the fchool-maRer faid in his name to the people, 
he prefumed it w*as all right, and went on without hefitation. 
As it is the intereR of Denmark to extend its language over 
thofe countries as much as poflible, a fchool-maRer was appointed 
at Kautokeino for teaching DaniRi to his neighbours, and as many 
as he could draw together to receive his inRrudtions. It would 
appear that this fchool-maRer had not greatly improved his man¬ 
ners and addrefs, from his travels into Norway, if we were to judge 
from his matrimonial conne&ion. His wife was only three feet 
and a half high, and indifputably the uglieR creature beyond the 
polar circle. But on the other hand it fhould feem, that he had 
acquired from his poliRied neighbours of Norway the art of in- 
Rnuation, and fome knowledge in the fcience of gallantry. He 
was able to gain the acquaintance and attachment of a young 
girl in the parifli, who in a fiiort time thereafter found herfelf in 
a condition that difcovered how much file had profited by the in- 
RruClions of the fchool-maRer ; a circumfiance which placed this 
public functionary in an aukward fituation with regard both to 
the 
