New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-24

beard his eries At considerable distance. Follow
ing o. We best could, seross plain Deary ndie N
diameter, We found him at last in q nArrow dsil BE-
tween two hills The ground low sIoped rapAy
nortbwsrd, and saw that We had rrcesed the
watershed, and that the plain behind Us us4t be
the lake Jedeckeaure, which, according TO Won
Buch, is /, $40 feet above the sea.
On emerging from the dell We found q gentle
slope before u.s. covered with hard zee, down which
our pulls Hew like the wind. This brought u 70
another Lake, followed by similar dope, and 80 we
descended the icy terraces, until, in little more
than an hour, some covered hay-stacks gave eyi-
denee Of human habtatons and we drew up at the
hpts Of Eitajiryi, in Norway. An old man, who
had been watching our approach, Immediately
climbed upon the roof and removed board from the
chimney, after which he ushered US into bare,
cold room, and kindled roaring FIRE in the chin
ney. Anton unpscked our provisions, and our
hunger was so desperate, after fasting for twenty
hours that We could scarcely wait for the bread to
thaw and the coffee 10 boil. We set out again at
noon, down the frozen bed Of stream which drains
the lakes but had not proceeded far before both
deers and pulks began to break through the ice,
probably on account of springs under it. After
being almost swamped, We managed to get up the
steep snow-bank and took to the plain again,
making our own road over ridge and through boil
low. The caravan was soon stopped, that the pulks
might be turned bottom upward and the ice scraped
of, which, like the barnaces on ships hull, i'm
peded their way through the snow. The broad
plain We were trayersing stretched away TO the
north without break or spot of color TO relieve
its CHASTITY whiteness; but toward the southwest;
where the sunset of an unrsen spread its roseate
glow through the mist, arose some low mounds,
covered with dropping birches, which shone against
the soft, mellow splendor, like sprays Of silver en-
broidered on rose-cOlOred satin.
Our course, for about fifteen miles, lay alter
nately upon the stream (where the ice suf-
fcently strong) and the wild plain. Two or three
Lapp tents on the bank exhibited the usual amount
of children and dogs but We did not think it worth
while TO extend the circle of our acquaintance in
this direction. At 5 o'clock, after il had long
been dark, We reached half dozen huts called
Sepe, two Norwegian miles from this place. Long
Isasc wished to stop here for the night, but we
resolutely set ourselves against him. The princi-
pal hut was filthy, crowded with Lapps, and filed
with disagreesble smell from the warm, wet
poesks hanging to the rafters. In one corner lay
the carcasses of two deer.caves which had been
killed by wolves. A long bench, a table aud a
rude frame covered with deerskins, and serving as
a bed, comprised oil the furniture. The usual
buckets of sour milk, with wooden ladies, stood by
the door. No one appeared to have any particular
occupation, if We except the hosts wife, who was
engaged with an infant in reindeer breeches We
smoked and deberated while the deers ate their
balls of moss, and the result was, that a stout,
yellow. haired LspP youngster was engaged 70 pilot
us to Kautokeino.
Siepe stands on steep bank down which our
track led to the stream again. As the CARAVAN set
of, my deer which had behaved very well through
the day suddenly became fractions, sprang of the
track whirled himself round on his hind legs ~
if On pivot, and turned the pulk completely over,
buryng me in the snow. Now, had come from
Muonioysra, more than hundred miles, without
being once overturned, and was ambitious to make
the whole journey with equal success. thcre-
fore picked myself up, highly Disconnected, and
started afresh. The very same thing happened a
second and third time, and don't think I shall
be considered unreasonable for becoming furiously
angry. should certainly have committed cervi.
eide had any weapon been at hand I seized the
animal BY the horns, shook, cufed and kicked him.
but all to no purpose. Long Isaac, who was pass.
ing in his pulk, made some remark, which Anton
with all the gravity and conscientiousness of his
new position Of interpreter, Immediately translated
Long Isaac says" he shouted, that the deer
will 60 well enough, if you knew how to drive
him. "Long Isaac may go to the devil" was, I
am sony to say my profane reply, which Anton at
once translated to it's object.
Seating myself in the pulk again, gave the
deer the ren and for time kept him to the top of
his speed, following the Lapp, who drove rapidly
down the windings Of the stream. 1t was quite
dark, but our road was now somewhat broken,
and for three hours our caravan swiftly
and ,sently sped its way. Then, some
scattered lights appeared in the distance; our
tired deers leaped forward with fresher spirit, and
soon brought Us TO the low wooden huts of Kauto
KENO. We had Travelled upward of sixty miles
since leaving Lappsjarvi, breaking our own road
through deep snow for great part of the way
During this time our deers had not been changed
| cannot but respect the provoking animals after
such a feat More about Kautokeino and the
Laps in my next. BIT.
FROM NEIV-HEXICO.