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fireplace. The family residence in the foreground
on the left has considerable architectural
pretensions, due to the stone abutments at the corners,
and is quite luxurious in the matter of windows.
The second is endowed with a startling innovation
in the form of a chimney pot.
August 1st-2nd.—We leave Hammerfest at
midnight. Being Sunday, we have many passengers
making short trips between the local stations, and
among them a few Lapps in their Sunday clothes.
When thus attired, and more or less washed, they
are greatly improved in appearance. There was
one Lapp girl on board, utterly clean, carefully
dressed, and very pretty indeed. The sturdy
Uhlan who was thrown from his horse by the
musquitoes, is very skilful in the production of
rapid sketches of scenery, which he drew most
effectively with Faber’s coloured wax pencils. He
was in raptures about the beauty of this “schöne
Christine,” and drew her portrait, for which she
sat with charming patience.
I noticed to-day some confirmations of Mr.
Robertson’s statements respecting the mixture of
the Lapps and Norwegians. Many boats came
alongside to land and embark passengers making
short Sunday trips. Some of these boats were
rowed by bearded semi-Lapps, of whom the
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