New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-26

vas blast IRON the Norsemans heu. and the
to,ch Of ii on your face almost made you screan.
Noting can be more severe-aayng. branding
with . hot iron. cutting with duh knife, &c.
msy be something like il, bat no worse.
The sun ose through the frozen air little after
Zine, and mo.nted quite high at noon. At Packls
We procured seue hot milk and smoked reindeer.
toerabe horses aad stout boy of fourteen to drive
our baggage. sled. Every one we met had face
eitker frozen, or about to freeze. Such success
SIGN of countenances fiery red, purple, blue, black
almost. with white frosts2ots and surrounded with
rings of lev hair and fur neyer saw before. We
thanked God again and again that our faces were
Turned southwark, and that he deadly wind wa
blowing On our backs. When we reached Korpy
Kils, our boys face, although solid and greasy as
bag Of lard, was badly frozen. His nose was quite
white and swollen as il blstered by FIRE, and thero
were frozen blotches on both cheeks The landlord
rubbed the parts instantly with rum, aud performed
the came operation on our noses.
Again, for the first time in more than a month.
We saw daylight, and cannot describe how cheer
ipg was the effect of those pure. white, brilliant
RAYS. in spite of the iron landscape they ilumined.
III WIS no longer the wv <hAN'NN
sun; not the twilight CLEANS of shifting color, beau
tful. but dim not the faded, mock daylight, which
sometimes glimmered for halfhour at noon but
the true white, full, golden day, which wehad al
most forgotten. So nearly, indeed, that did not
for some time suspect the cause of the unusual
wilderness and brightness. Its effect upon the trees
was superb. The twigs of the birch and the nee
II .nHan mar
killed. like Jets of Jewels spouted up from the bosom
of the immaculate snow. The clumps Of birches
can be som pared to nothing but frozen fountains
frozen in full action with their showery shesves OF
spray arrested before they fell. II was wonder
ful. a fairy world We behcld-too beautiful to be
Efeless but every face We met reminded US the
more that this was the chill beauty of Desth--of
dead Nature. Death was in the sparkling air, in
| the jeweed trees, in the spotless snow. Take OIL
your mtten, and his hand will grasp yours, like
vice: uncover your mouth. and your frozen lips
| will soon acknowledge his hiss
| Even while looked the same icy chills were
running through my blood precursors OF that
drowsy torpor which was so anxious to avoid.
| But no; it could come, and | dozed until both
restore their powers of motion and feeling. IL
| was not quite dark when we reached Kuckula, the
| last station, but thence to Haparsnda our horses
were Old and lazy, and our position was little
boy whose weak voice had no effect Brasted
kept his hands warm in jerking and urging, but !
| sat and froze Village after village was passed.
but we looked in vain for the lights of Torneaa.
We we're thoroughly exhausted with our FIVE days
battle against the dreadful cold when at last row
of lights cleaned across the river, and We drove
I'D n, the inn. The landlord met US with just the
same words as on the first visit and, strange
enough, put us into the same room, where sho
same old Norrand merchant was again quartered,
in tho some stage OF tlpsiness. The kind fredriSa
did not recognize us in our Lapp dresses, until
had unrobed when she cried out in joyful surprise,
"Wby, you were here before !"
We had been so completely chilled that it was
org time before any perceptble warmth returned.
But generous meal, with bottle Of what
called "gammal seherry' (though tho Devil, and
bis servants, the manufacturers of chemical wines.
only knew what it was) started the tagging circu
latOn. We then went to bed, tingling and sting
ing in every nerve from the departing cold. Every
one complained of the severity of the weather,
which, we are told, has not been equaled for many
years past. But such bed, and such rest az
had Lying between clean sheets, with my feet
buried in soft fur, walOwed in flood Of downy.
delicious sensations until sunrise. This morning
We yentured to wash our faces and brush our teeth
for the first time in five days, put on clean shirts,
and felt once more like responsible beings. Tho
natives never wash when the weather is 40 cold,
and cautioned us against it. The wind had fallen,
but the mercury again froze at 100 below zero.
Nevertheless, We went out after breakfast to call
on DR.. WrethOlm, and walk over to TOrnea.
The old Doctor was oyerjoyed to see US again.
"Ah," said he, il is good fortune that
"you have got back alive. When the weather
" was so cold, thought Of you, travelling over
the Norwegian Oelen and thought you must GER
{" tanly be frozen to DEATH His wife was no
less cordial in her welcome. They brought US ale
and Swedish punch, with reindeer cheese for our
frozen noses, and insisted on having their horse
put into the slefto take US over to Tornea and
bring US back TO dinner The doctors boy drove
u.s. facing the wind with our faces exposed, at
40 but one nights rest and good food enabled Us
TO bear i without Inconvenience. Tornea is q
plain Swedish town, more comPactly built than
Haparanda vet scarcely larger. The old church
is rather picturesque, and there were some
tolerabe houses, which appeared to be Govern
ment buildings, but the only things particularly
Russian which We noticed were-a Cossack sentry,
hose purple face showed that be nearly frozen,
aud guide. post with 4" $50 versts to Uleaborg"
upon IT, On returning 10 the Doctors we found