Under The Rays Of The Aurora Borealis V2 - In The Land Of The Lapps And Kvaens (1885) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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...