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consulship, renders it at present a bore and a
serious tax upon the time of Her Majesty’s
representative.
Mr. Robertson told us that the Lapps only visit
Hammerfest occasionally to sell their fish, and then
leave for the sea; that they are losing their
primitive habits, and becoming more like the
Norwegians. He expects that they will
amalgamate, and die out in the course of a generation
or two. He also stated that reindeer are rapidly
diminishing in numbers, so much so, that he and
others living thereabouts fall short of their
customary winter supplies of meat. On this point
Mr. Robertson may have been mistaken, as he
failed to take into account the great increase of
Norwegian population, not merely at the town of
Tromsö, and the whole of the Tromsö amt, or
district, but also in the Finmarken’s amt, in
which Hammerfest is situated, where the
population has grown from 8320 in 1825, when Mr.
Robertson first settled there, to 22,145 in 1870:
Norwegians 8585, Lapps 7183, and Quains 4566.
The increase of demand consequent upon this
explains a scarcity of venison, without assuming
any diminution of the number of deer.
Mr. Robertson, who has lived fifty years at
Hammerfest, tells us that this is the worst summer
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