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76 TRAVELS
{tation beneath the pulpit, and when the minifter has pronounced
one fentence of his fermon he ftops, and the fchool-mafter repeats
it to the congregation, in the language of Lapland. The effect
which the eloquence of the preacher, thus interrupted and muti-
lated, muft have on his audience, it is not difficult to conceive. I
confefs I would have given, I know not how much, to have heard
this Laplander, and known what kind of tranflation he made of the ©
Danifh miffionary’s fermons. As for the minifter, who underftood
not a word of what the fchool-mafter faid in his name to the people,
he prefumed it was all right, and went on without hefitation.
As it is the intereft of Denmark to extend its language over
thofe countries as much as poffible, a {chool-mafter was appointed
at Kautokeino for teaching Danifh to his neighbours, and as many
as he could draw together to receive his inftructions. It would
appear that this {chool-mafter had not greatly improved his man-
ners and addrefs, from his travels into Norway, if we were to judge
from his matrimonial connection. His wife was only three feet
and a half high, and indifputably the uglieft creature beyond the
polar circle. But on the other hand it fhould feem, that he had
acquired from his polifhed neighbours of Norway the art of in-
finuation, and fome knowledge in the fcience of gallantry. He
was able to gain the acquaintance and attachment of a young
girl in the parifh, who ina fhort time thereafter found herfelf in
a condition that difcovered how much fhe had profited by the in-
ftruions of the fchool-mafter ; a circumftance which placed this
public funétionary in an aukward fituation with regard both to
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