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A LAPP ARISTOCRAT.
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four feet six and a-half inches Danish measure, which
is equal to about four feet eight inches English. Most
of them were making short journeys; some on their way
to church. They are a strictly religious people; not
merely a church-going people, but also highly moral
and well-conducted. We were told by the Norwegians
on board, who know them well, that the drunkenness
which was once common among them has now almost
totally disappeared. Most of them can read and write.
There was one who spoke a little English, and
seemed to be a man of station among his people. He
was five feet high, and rather proud, objecting decidedly
to being made an object of popular curiosity. He
came on board at Kaafiord, on his way to Bosekop,
and was the best dressed of them all, and his wife and
daughter were almost handsomely dressed: their caps,
or bonnets, were quite elegant artistic affairs, fitting
close on the top and sides of the head, and rising at the
back to a point which bends forward with a graceful
curve; this was gaily and tastefully embroidered in
many colours. The women’s dress is a kind of tunic
tied loosely at the waist, and reaching a little below the
knees, edged round with a bright yellow or reel band,
or with a double band of both colours. The trowsers,
of the same drab or buff colour as the tunic, are tied
rudely about the ankle with reindeer thongs ; the same
thongs tie the " comargo," or shoe, which is as
picturesque as the headdress. These shoes, or boots, are
made of reindeer skin, with the fur outside, very loose,
reaching to the ankles, where, being thus tied up with
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