Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-05-21

sand. 1t Is broad, cloyen and flexible, the
separate divisions spreading out SO a. to
present resisting surface when the foot is
set down, and falling together when it is
lifted. Thus in SHOWS where horse would
founder in the space of q hundred yards.
the deer easily works his way, mile after
mile, drawing the sliding. canoe-like pulk,
burdened with his masters weight after
him.
The Lapps generally treat their animals
with the greatest patience and forbearance,
but otherwise do not exhibit any PARTICULAR
attachment for them. They are indebted to
them for food, clothing. habitation and con-
veyance, and their very existence NAV there
fore be almost said to depend on that of their
herds. 1t is surprising, however, what a
number Of deer are requisite for the sup
port of family. Won Bnch says that a
Lapp who has hundred deer is poor, and
will be finally driven to descend to the
coast and take to fishing. The cows are
never male to labor. but are kept in the
woods for milking and breeding. Their
milk is said to be rich and nourishing. but /
have not yet hal an opportunity of testing
it. The cheese made from it is strong and
not particularly palatable. 1t yields an
oil which is the sovereign specific for frozen
| flesh. The male de,rs used for draft are al
ways castrated, which operation the old
Lapp women perform by slowly chewing the
glands between their teeth until they are
reduced to pulp, without wounding the
hide. q;
During this journey have had ample op-
portunity of familiarizing myself with rein
deer travel. 1t is picturesque enough at
the outset but when the novelty Of the thing
is worn of nothing is left but q continual
drain upon ones patience. Nothing can
exceed the GOODNESS with which your deer
jumps of the track slackens his tow-rope.
turns around and looks you in the face, as
much as to say: s.What are you going to
do about it?" The simplicity and stupid
ity of his countenancc seem to You to be
admirably feigned, and unless you are an
old hand you are inevitably provoked
This is particularly pleasant on the marshy
table lands of Laplanl, where if he takes a
notion to bolt with you, your pulk bounces
over the hard tussocks, sheers sideways
down the sudden pitches, or swamps itself
in beds of loose snow. Harness a frisky
sturgeon to dug out" in rough sea,
and you will have some idea af this method
of travelling. While l acknowledge the
Providential disposition of things which
has given the reindeer to the Lapp, cannot
avoid thanking Heaven that am not a
Lapp, and that shall never travel again
with reindeer. e.tf E la
! TIE ROOF OF THE WORLD.
BY this time it was beginning to grow
lighter, showing us the drcary waste of ta-
ble-land which we had before crossed
in the fog. North of US was plain of un-
broken snow, extending to level line on
the horizon, where it met the dark violet
sky. Were the color changed, its would
have perfectly represented the gaudy pla-
teaus of the Nubian Dessert, in SO many
particulars does thc extreme North initiate
the extreme South. But the Sun which
never deserts the desert, had not yet return
ed to these solitudes. Far, far away on
the edge ofthe sky, a dull red glimmer
showed where he novel Not the table
land of Pamir, in Thibbet, the cralle of the
Oxus and the Indus. but this lower Lap
land terrace, is entitled to the designation
of the Roof Of the World" We were
on the summit, creeping along her mount
ain rafters, aad loolin, soi..hwarl, Of h,r
shelving caves, to catch glimpse of the
light playing on h,r mi; e'tic froat. H,rc,
for once, we Sc emcl to look down on the
horizon, and thought of Europe and the
Tropics as lying below Our journey
northward had been an ascent. but now the
worlds steep sloped downward before us
into sunshine and warmer air. In ascend
ing the Andes and Himlayas, you pass
through all climates and belts Of vegetation
between the Eluator AMI the Pole, and so
journey due north, beyond the circle Of
the sun, simply reverscs the phenomenon,
and impresses one like the ascent of a
mountain on the grandest possible scale !
LAPLAxD FINISHED. Sd
The trip to Kantokeino embraces all
shall see of Lapp life this winter. The ro-
nance of the tribe, as / have already said.
has totally departed with their conversion,
while their habits of life, acarcely impro-
we'd in the least, arc sufficiently repulsive
to prevent any closer experience than /
have had, unless the gain were greater
Mr.. Wolley. who has been three years in
Lapland, says that the superstitions and
picturesque traditions of the people have
almost wholly disappeared, and the coarse
mysticism and rant which they have en-
grated on sseir imperfect Christianity
does not differ materially from the same
excresenccs in more civilized races. They
have not (the better for them, it is true,
any characteristic picturesque viccs-but
have become, certainly to their own great
advantage, pious, fanatical, ignorant and
commonplace people. l have described
them exactly as found them, and as they
! have been described to- me- by those who
know them we'll. The readers of s'Afrais''
may be q little disappointed in the picture,
las | confess have been lin an r.rtistic
sense, only) with the reality, but the
Lapps have lost many vices with their po-
etic dio6Ierie. and nobody, has a right to
Icomplain. s-e.sss 4
+ Thompson versus Nose.
t"Come, gentle Spring, etherial milduess come.''
4. 11l4t l.ipf stA 80 lThompson.
ltYf Won are coming yhv don't yer 6orne aIoncs, b.