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dogs off duty who one by one had crept in and
lain down by the fire. Then we drank each
in turn our cup of excellent coffee from the
two cups of the household and they all took their
short pipes from their leather pouches and began
to smoke with great gusto. The men pulled off
their reindeer shoes and spread the tufts of
carex grass to dry before the fire, Lapps wear no
socks. Again I admired the perfect shape of their
small feet with their elastic insteps and strong,
protruding heels. Some of the women took
their sleeping babies from their cradles of birch
bark, filled with soft moss and suspended from the
tent-poles, to give them the breast. Others
explored the heads of their half-grown children
lying flat in their laps.
“I am sorry you are leaving us so soon,” said
old Turi, “it has been a good stay, I like you.”
Turi spoke good Swedish, he had even many
years ago been to Luleå to lay the grievances of
the Lapps against the new settlers before the
governor of the province who was a staunch
defender of their lost cause and besides an uncle
of mine. Turi was a mighty man, undisputed
ruler over his camp of five Kåtor>, containing his
five married sons, their wives and children, all
hard at work from morning till night to attend to
his herd of a thousand reindeer.
“We will have to break camp soon ourselves,”
Turi went on, “I am sure we shall have an early
winter. The snow will soon be too hard under
the birch-trees for the reindeer to get at the
moss, we shall have to move down to the
pine-forest before the month is over. I can hear by
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