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Under The Rays Of The Aurora Borealis V2 - In The Land Of The Lapps And Kvaens (1885) (Paperback)
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Under The Rays Of The Aurora Borealis V2 - In The Land Of The Lapps And Kvaens (1885) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER III. JOUKNEYS TO HATTA, MUONION1SKA, AND KAEESUANDO. Tub
Pleasures Of A Traveller?Something On " Y"?An UnwelCome Guest?The
Besult Of His Visit?The Start At Last? A Drive In A Snowstorm-?A
Befuge?A Banquet At A " Grand Hotel "?A Night On The Mountain-?In
The Empire Of The Czar?A Diplomatic " Wedge "?Onward ?In The Land
Of The Thousand Lakes?The " Straight Line " Of A Beindeer? A Lovely
Midnight Drive?A Centre Of Religious FanaTicism?Absolution
Dispensed Wholesale?An Evening In A "holy" Place ? The Finns ? The
Kvins ? A Linguistic Puzzle?Bathing enfamille?A Land Of Lakes And
Forests? An Hospitable Spot In The Wilderness?A Pleasant EvenIng?-A
Finnish Church Service?Finnish versus Lappish?A Desolate
Spot?Disappointment?On The Way Home?ConFusing Frontiers?Caught In A
Snowstorm?A Pleasant Night?Welcome Back " Wenn Jemand eine Rtise
tliulit so kann er was erzdhlen," says a German proverb. When a man
has travelled he must have something to tell, you may perhaps say,
and having now held the reader so long captive in the Koutokseino
solitude, I feel it doubly incumbent on me to tell something of
what I saw and experienced on my journey to?well, you shall soon
learn where. I must say, by-the-bye, that the duty does not weigh
heavily on me, as he who has travelled feels compelled to relate
something?yea, you might as well attempt to stem mighty Niagara
itself as the narrative of a man who for nine .months has been shut
out fromevery vestige of civilisation, with a dog, a few hundred
reindeer, and a score of Lapps for his sole society and enjoyment,
were the journey but a walk through a village high street. And to
be candid, gentle reader, is it not one of the greatest delights
and rewards of the journey to think: " What shall I not have to
relate when I get home ? " Does n...
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