The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-12 00:00:00

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eap and cleve

X very c

gy compiled publicatic
tains 128 pages of clearly and closely printed matter, consist-
ing of tales, romances, and poems, by well known pens• For

the lover of light reading this publication will be an acquisi-

The Fanner, the Belle Assemblee, and the Sportsman

Rogerson, —.._
These three excellent publications are beautifu.
trated this month. The Farmer is full of agricultural
causeinte
l.
ligence. In the Belle we find the editress takin sup. " the
Why
of the millitlers—" The white slaves of Engnd
does not Mrs. Wilson devote a considerable space

Strand

fly illus-

to this

showing the hor-

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subject in a series of well-written art

rors of the system of " White Slavery," and by this means

nettling like sym-

awake in the breasts of her fair readers so,-
pathy for their toiling sex ? There are many agreeable sto-
ries, &c. this month. A portrait of Lady Peel embellishes
the number.—ln the Sportsman, Major Campbell, Mango,
Nimrod, Castor, and others contribute. There is one article

on boxing, which is certainly amusing. The writer's attempts
at fine phrases—his French and Latin quotations, and his
choice terms of " blackguard," and so forth, applied to the
members of the Prize Ring, and his own note at the end of
the page, will not fail to excite merriment. His sweeping de-
nunciation of the ring is not altogether fair or well grounded,
as there have been, and are, many honourable men con-
nected with the ring, who have filled their stations in life
with credit to themselves. Amongst other blunders we may
notice, et passant, that Thurtell was not hung at
as " Boxer" asserts, but at Her'

Newgate,

Fraser

There are some good contributions to Fras this month.
The Anti-Corn-Law League and the country Is n xcellent
article. The novel reader will find a review of two or three
works that may be useful to him in hunting for a book.
he
" Pilgrimage of Paris" looks very like a translation. " The
of Sir Murray Maxwell" is concluded. It has beehn
" The Forsaken
old story over again—first love and blighted affection. The
love epistles of Aristwnetus are clever. Fitzboodle " con-
fesses "

throughout replete with interest

" is more fitting for a

amusingly. " Boat a-hoy
newspaper than for the pages of Fraser. A consideration
of the government plan of education concludes the number.

ENCOUNTER WITH A FAMILY OF LAPLANDERS
• .••.

The next morning, 27th August, was rainy, and tee ....
were all covered with clouds ; we breakfasted at four, on
broiled capereailzie, and brandy and water, but were weather
bound at as
Rorvigon till three o'clock, p.m. when we embarked
in two small and crazy boats on Lake Limingen. There w
far more motion than I liked, the nature of our vessels
being
duly considered. , however, afely landed on some
rocks, after a row ofWe tenwere English miless, and then set off to
walk four more, partly through woods. In our route wde
passed hy a sootier hut, where, as I have before remarke
the peasants who pasture their coves in nehbourhood
keep their milk, cream, and cheeses. We nest crossed
shone
barren mountains • and. at about half-past seven our gm. e
(the Lapp) desired us not to tire at a pack of ptarmigairli,
which got close up to us, for fear, he said, of disturbing e
reindeer, as he every moment expected to find his countryci
men. Soon after, as we were all walking in
keeping perfect silence, be stopped suddenly. and, pointing
a single file, :t.n
with his finger, directed our attention to some sn',7e,.JT,_
seen issuing through the twilight, curling up the slu •cu .‘"'
opposite hill. The man's manner and attitude were quite dreg
magic, and we had the satisfaction of feeling that ouroobject
matic, and we had the satisfaction of feeling that is dog and
was about to be attained. The Lapp now
ran off, evidently much rejoiced at the idea of rebjoirii_negwhais tied up d. g
..3
wife and family, after an absence of several mont s. H
also anxious to inform his countrymen who we were, and
what brought us here, as he had some fear lest they would
take alarm, and move off with their herd. He soon, hobw
ever, returned, and at the same time we saw a large number
ever,
of reindeer driven up the valley to their quarters for h
a dog, whose oc:
night, by a man and a boy, accompanied by
casional bark seemed to keep them under perfect control
Upon our arrival we found the encanipment consisted of two
circular tents built of poles joined together in the centreo,
or
form of a cone, with cloths stretched over them. The d. w
e
of the larger one, in which we took up our abode, was 50.1.2
e
and small, that we bad some difficulty in crawling in. 1.101
whole scene was highly picturesque. Each tent was occupied.
bY a Lapp family ; every individual gave us tent w kind re-_
ception, and heartily shaking us by the hand, at Once offae.reon
us a share of their tent, the only uight's lodging theydb d t
soon
five. We thankfully accepted their laospitalitY, an
round ourselves lying on skins before a large and cheerful
fire.
The inhabitants of the hut comp
and three generations of
Lapps; namely, a middle-aged man and his
children, and an old grandmother ; to these were now add d
wife, with
_foeur
our party, consisting of four Englishmen,
prefers, and two other attendants. The tent was
mad
with
coarse dark cloth, and the outside of it was
their two isteori
covere
dried .
turf ; around the inside were hung
gut of reindeer, guns, and various other useful a.rticles. t
cheeses, bladders,
chief part of the smoke escaped through a large opening, a
andthe top, but enough remained painfully to affect our eyes,
to give the copper countenances of the Lapps a shade. as
dark as those or Indians. The second family, who occupied
the smaller tent, namely, our Lapp guide —Peter Johansen:
his wife, and two children—soon came to pay anda visit. I
have already described his person. His wife daughter
had light hair and fair complxions, and were pleasing in their
appearance, and his little boy was an intelligent and inte.-
resting. child ; and, although under ten years of age, took his
turn with the men in watching the reindeer during
He was dressed in his best clothes, entirely made of skin.s,
the night.
with a girdle round his waist, and such a protuberance in
front as to give him the appearance of being stuffed, and
thus
greatly to excite our laughter. He wore his knife
form-
his case
behind, and several small ornaments by his side ;
mg a complete Lilliputian Lapp in full costunie. We were
soon presented with a large bowl of reindeer milk. which is
much richer than that of the cow, and has a delicate and
aromatic flavour, with a pleasant taste, resembling the milk
of the cocoanut ; but I found I could not taste
couch of it
with impunity, as it was more like drinking cream than milk.
They also boiled for us a reindeer ham, which had on
that, upon
taking oar ly been
salted two d
depays before. We found it so good
arture next morning.
we were glad
to our scanty store of provisions. It has a wild flavour,and
to add it
is quite equal to our park venison. The old grandmother
was as shrivelled as a mummy, but the other woo om
arek
n
were by no means ill-looking. Their dress was d
woollen cloth, with silver ornaments in front, as
the girdle ronnd the waist, to which sewing implements were
well as in
suspended. These ornaments were in good taste, and well
finished ; and• the buttons were similar to those used by the
peasantry in Spain. I have no doubt this smart costume
was put on in compliment to us.
The dress of the men consisted of leather coats and tight
trousers of the same material, with reindeer skin boots. All
the females smoked ; and the old woman seemed more pleased
with having her pipe filled with tobacco brought from Eng-
land than with anything else that we gave her. Some s
boxe
of lucifer matches which we presented to them wer also
e
highly prized ; they bad evidently never seen them before,
and expressed no small astonishment at the manner in which
ignition is effected. We regretted we had no fish
hooks,
which they inquired for; but we gave them a glass of
finks,
each, which the octogenarian appeared to relish more
than
any of her descendants,. The head of the family Pollan
Neilson) was a grave sedate-looking man ; decision of cha-
racter and intelligence were marked on Ins tine countenance.
In reply to the questions I put to him through my interpre-
ter, he said they were happy in the enjoyment of their wan-
dering pastoral life ; that they confined themselves to the
mountainons ridge which separates Norway from Sweden,
the boundary line between these countries being only two
English miles from the spot where they were then encampsd ;
that they had been there about eight days, intended to -
main a fortnight longer, and should then move onwards fora
change of pasture for their reindeer. He told me, that in
summer they conduct these animals, which constitute their
wealth, to the elevated parts of the mountains, and in the
winter they descend to the level country. His herd consisted
of about three hundred, and it appears that a family requires
nearly that number for its support. The great proportion of
them were his own property, but some belonged to Peter
Johansen, and ten to a middle-aged single woman who lodged
with them. These Lapps, although " dwellers in tents" all
the year round, are in many respects far from being uncivi-
lised. They strictly observe the Sabbath, the best reader of
the family officiating as priest, and going regularly through
Lutheran ice. Occasionally they attend the church
ofthe the nearestsery
village on the frontier of Sweden.—Mitford's
Viiii to Norway.
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