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told that arrangements would be made for the
building of a good hotel, which I hope will be
thus constructed, or built of brick or stone.
Having failed to see the reindeer when we
previously visited the Lapp camp in the Tromsdal,
and an excursion to the fjelde in search of them
being unlikely to succeed, as they wander over
a very wide range, we adopt the somewhat
undignified device of ordering and paying for a special
performance. An ambassador, whose fee is one
dollar, was despatched to the camp with full
powers to negotiate for this object.
August 3rd.—Our plenipotentiary returns shortly
after midnight, having fully succeeded in his
mission. In consideration of a payment of three
dollars the reindeer will be brought down from
the fjelde for our special entertainment at 3 a.m.
We accordingly start at 1 a.m., find the valley
in nearly the same condition as before, and reach
the huts at about 2.30. All is silent, nobody is
moving. The doors of the huts are closed, but not
fastened. I open the foremost, my old
acquaintance that has stood so long, and there behold
a happy sleeping family. Men, women, children,
and dogs, impartially distributed, are snoring
together on equal terms upon reindeer skins
spread on the ground.
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