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“Just where the channel between the island
and the mainland is the narrowest—i. e. about half
a mile wide—is an irregular collection of wooden
houses, with sides painted white or red, and with
bright green roofs. The roofs, however, are not
painted green; but their colour is due to a rich
crop of grass covering every one, and variegated
with large buttercups and the white flowers of the
winter green and scurvy grass. A couple of goats
are grazing on one of the roofs, and the others
will shortly be economized in like manner, or
carefully mown before the winter darkness
becomes complete. With the exception of this
roof-crop, the houses are exactly like those of the
wooden villages sold in chip boxes at the toy
shops. The church at Vadsö, like other Arctic
churches, is of the toy-box order of architecture.
“Everywhere between the houses, and
extending far beyond the houses, are dozens and scores
of acres covered with a curious network of low
wooden scaffolding, which ‘no fellow can
understand’ at first sight, and from a distance. Close
inspection reveals a continuous repetition of
wooden framework, upon which, at a height of
about six feet from the ground, are laid
horizontal wooden bars or sticks, the trunks of young
pines or fir trees. These skeleton structures are
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