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CHAPTER V.
Tromsö — Our first meeting with Laplanders — Sleeping arrangements
of fashionable visitors to the Arctic metropolis — The Hôtel du Nord
— American “smartness” — The progress of Tromsö — Dissipated
Laplanders — Arctic villas and luxuriant lawns — The difficulty
of distinguishing to-day from to-morrow in the Arctic regions —
Programme of the midnight sun — Shopping in Tromsö — English
goods cheaper than in London — The aristocracy and democracy
of Tromsö — The Lapp camp in the Tromsdal — Critical
examination of ladies’ dresses — Commercial transactions with the Lapp
women — Their political economy — Midnight cod-fishing — Victims
to the pursuit of knowledge — Fish rissoles and fish puddings —
Our menu at Tromsö.
July 21th.—Reach Tromsö about 2 a.m. and land,
as usual, by means of a small boat. This boat
takes us with our impedimenta to the foot of some
wooden stairs mounting to a wooden landing
stage. We are rather startled by inadvertently
invading the domestic privacy of a happy family of
Laplanders, who had spread some reindeer skins
upon the platform, just at the top of the steps, and
were sleeping soundly in the sunshine and main
thoroughfare. We nearly stepped upon them,
and, had it been dark, must have stumbled over
them. The bead of the family awoke, rubbed his
eyes, sat up, and stared at us; his wife continued
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