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uncivilized tribes, woman is the slave of man, and treated
like a beast of burden; and that this state of things
is only improved by the general advance of
refinement and intellectual culture.
Guizot, in his ‘History of Civilization,’ attributes
the comparatively high social position attained by
women in modern times among Western nations to
the domestic influences of the feudal system, and
the chivalry supposed to be associated with it.
All these inferences and speculations are refuted
by the Lapps. Judging from my own observation,
I venture to say that there are no people in the
world, however refined, among whom the relative
position of man and woman is more favourable to
the latter than among the Lapps. The Lapp woman
is smaller and physically weaker than the man, but
instead of the man using his superior strength as
a means of tyranny, he applies it by taking upon
himself all the hardest and most dangerous work
that has to be done, and leaves the woman to her
natural and highest avocations, the work of the
household and her maternal duties.
The women carry the baby, but the heavier
burdens are borne by the men.
When bartering their goods at Tromsö, the men
carried the hides, the women the lighter parcels
of embroidered shoes. All the heavy work of
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