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CHAPTER VIII.
A second visit to the Lapp encampment — Moral and religious
savages—Condition of the Laplanders a proof of the high character
.of the Norwegians—Snow and sunshine—The English language
a dialect of the Scandinavian—Few, if any, English words
derived from the German—When to see Arctic Norway at its
best—Bodö—The Threnen Islands—The ships of the old
Sea-kings—Curious ch ange in the tone and colour of the light at
midnight— Etiquette of the dinner-table in Norway —
Post-offices—The Leer Foss.
We paid another visit to the Lapp encampment, and
ascended the hills above it, in the hope of seeing the
reindeer, but did not find them. I observed many little
things in the hut this time which I did not see before,
for we were now received as old friends, with a sort of
rude welcome and a more communicative spirit. The
kone, or wife, had just gathered some wild herbs from
the mountain side, which she was cutting up for soup,
and storing in a bag of reindeer skin. Some comargos
and other articles of reindeer skin were in course of
tanning, being laid in a pan with strips of beech bark.
Among the domestic apparatus was a highly civilized
copper tea-kettle, besides some other copper vessels, and
a pair of ornamental mahogany bellows. The pan in
which the shoes were tanning, being made of thick
copper, was of some considerable money value. What
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