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uestions--Start for Lapland--Arctic Daylight--Campbell's Tornea--A Finnish Inn--Colours of the Arctic Sky--Approach to Avasaxa--Crossing the Arctic Circle--An Afternoon Sunset--Reception at Juoxengi 72 CHAPTER VIII. ADVENTURES AMONG THE FINNS. Journey up the Tornea--Wonders of the Winter Woods--Lapps and Reindeer--My Finnish Vocabulary--A Night Journey--Reception at Kengis--Continue the Journey--Finnish Sleds--A Hard Day--The Inn at Jokijalka--Its Inmates--Life in a Finnish Hut--An Arctic Picture--A Frozen Country--Kihlangi--A Polar Night--Parkajoki--We reach Muoniovara. 83 CHAPTER IX. LIFE IN LAPLAND. Reception at Muoniovara--Mr. Wolley--Our Lapland Home--A Finnish Bath--Send for Reindeer--A Finnish House--Stables--The Reindeer Pulk--My first Attempt at driving Reindeer--Failure and Success --Muonioniska--View from the Hill--Fears of an old Finn--The Discovery of America--A Lapp Witch--Reindeer Accident. 98 CHAPTER X. A REINDEER JOURNEY ACROSS LAPLAND. Preparations for the Journey--Departure--A lazy Deer--"Long Isaac"--An Auroral Spectacle--A Night at Palajoki--The Table-Land of Lapland--Sagacity of the Deer--Driving a wild Reindeer--Polar Poetry--Lippajarvi--Picture of a Lapp--The Night--A Phantom Journey--The Track lost--A Lapp Encampment--Two Hours in a Lapp Tent--We start again--Descent into Norway--Heavy Travel--Lapp Hut in Siepe--A Fractious Reindeer--Drive to Kautokeino. 101 CHAPTER XI. KAUTOKEINO--A DAY WITHOUT A SUN. Lapland Etiquette--The Inn--Quarters at the Lansman's--Situation of Kautokeino--Climate--Life--Habits of the Population--Approach of Sunrise--Church Service in Lapland--Cold Religion--Noonday without Sunrise--The North and the South--A Vision--Visits of the Lapps--Lars Kaino--A Field for Portrait-painting--Character of the Lapp Race--Their present Condition--The religious Outbreak at Kautokeino--Pastor Hvoslef--A Piano in Lapland--The Schools--Visit to a Gamme 126 CHAPTER XII. THE RETURN TO MUONIOVARA. Advantages of Lapp Costume--Turning Southward--Departure from Kautokeino--A Lapp Hut--Religion--The Reindeer--Their Qualities --Treatment by the Lapps--Annoyances of Reindeer Travel--Endurance of Northern Girls--The Table-Land--The "Roof of the World"--Journey to Lippajarvi--
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