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There were many Lapps sauntering about the
streets; they were all Fjeld-Lapps, and had
evidently just arrived on their annual visit to the
town. Some were languidly negotiating with
the Norwegian shopkeepers for the barter of
reindeer skins, reindeer hair, ornamental fur shoes
(Komager), feathers of ptarmigan, &c., for wadmal
of Norwegian or Swedish manufacture, for meal,
coffee, gunpowder, tobacco, hardwares, &c. The
gentleness and timidity that I before observed
is displayed even in their commercial proceedings.
A few of them ventured to offer komager to us;
and I was glad to find that they usually asked
what appears to be a fair market price, and made
no abatement. They were also selling skins and
komager to sailors in the streets.
Some were indulging in wild dissipation;
drinking coffee and eating buns at stalls, or rather
tables and benches, placed on purpose for them
in the main street. Their enjoyment of these
luxuries was huge and obvious, and very
delightful to contemplate. There was a happy
out-on-the-spreeish expression on their faces. Like little
children at a holiday feast, they held up their buns
and displayed them to each other before taking a
bite, smiling slyly all the while; and when they
saw me watching them, at first looked down
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