Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-06-05

rably feigned, and unless yon arc an old
hand you are inevitably provoked. This is
particularly pleasant on the marshy table
| lands of Lapland, where, if be takes notion
to bolt with you, your pulk bonnces over
the hard tussocks, sheers sideways down the
sudden pitches, or swamps itself in beds of
loose snow. Harness frisky sturgeon to
a "dig OUT in rough sea, and you will
have some idea of this method of travel
ing. While | acknowledge tie Providen-
tial disposition of things which have given
the reindeer to the Lapp, ] cannot avoid
thanking Heaven that am not Lapp.
and that shall never travel again with
reindeer.
The alterations of our deer obliged us to
take very simuous course. Sometimes We
headed north, and sometimes south, and the
way seemed SO long that mistrusted the
quality of our guide; but at last light
shone ahead. 1t was the hut of Eitajarvi.
| A lot of pulks lay in front of it, andl the
old Finn stood nlready with fir torch,
waiting to light us in. On arriving Anton
was greeted by his sister Caroline, who had
GENE to visit some relatives at Altengaard.
She was in company with some Firms, had
wandered about for twenty-four hours, ex-
posed. Think of an American girl sitting
with the thermometer at zero, and the snow
beating upon her, and neither rest nor food
for a day There arc few who would sur
vive twelve hours yet Caroline was as fresh
lively and cheerful as ever, and Immediately
set about cooking our supper. We found
fire in the cold guests room, the place swept
and cleaned, and good bed of deer-skin in
one corner. The temperature had sunk to
II deg. below zero, and the wind blew
through wide cracks in the floor, but be
tween the FIRE and the reciprocal warmth of
our bodies VIC secured comfortable sleep
a thug Of the first consequence in this eli
mate.
Our deer started we'll in the morning, and
the l.app guide knew his way perfectly.
The wind had blown 50 strongly that the
track was cleared rather than filled, aud We
slipped up the long slopes at rapid rate.
/ recognized tho narrow valley where We
first struck the northern streams, and the
snowy plain beyond, where our first Lapp
guide lost his way. By this time 1t was be-
ginning to grow lighter, showing US the
dreary wastes of table-land which We had
before crossed in the fog. North of US was
plain Of unbroken snow, extending 10 a
level line on the horizon, where it met the
dark violet sky. We're the color changed,
it would have perfectly represented the sam
| dy pIateans of the Nubian Desert, in SO ma
ny particulars does the extreme North imi-
tate the extreme South. But The sun,
! which never deserts The desert, had not yet
returned to these solitules. Far, far away.
on the edge of the sky, dull red glimmer
showed where he moved. Not ihe table
| land of I'alnir, in Thibet, the cradle of the
Oxus and the Indus, bat this lower lap
1 land terrace, has the designation of the
sRoof of the World" We were on the
summit, creeping along her mountain ratters,
and looking southwark, off her shelving
caves, to catch glimpse of the light play
ing on her majestic front. Here, for once
VIC seemed to look down on the horizon, and
4 l thought of Europe and the Tropi-s as ly-
ing below. Our journey porthward had
been an ascent, but now the worlds steep
sloped downward before us into sunshine
and warmer air. In ascending the Andes
or the Himalayas, you pass through all cli-
mates and belts Of vegetation between the
Equator and the Pole, and so journey due
north, beyond the circle Of the sun, simply
reserses the phenomenon, and lmprcsses one
like the ascent of mountain on the grand
est possible scale.
In two hours from the time We left Eita-
larvi we reached the Lapp encampment.
The herds of deer had been driven IN from
the woods, and we're clustered among the
! birch bushes around the tents. We had
some difficulty in getting our own deer past
them, until the Lapps camo to our assistance.
We made no halt, but pushed on, through
deeper SHOWS tIlan before, over the desolate
plain. As far as Palajaryi we ran With our
punwales below the snow-level, while the
foremost pulks were frequently swanpcd
under the white waves that broke over them.
We passed through picturesque gorge be-
tween two hills about 500 feet high, and be-
yond it came upon wide lakes covered deep
with snow, under woich there was tolcra-
Bile track, which the leading deer was able
to find with his feet. Beyond these lakes
there was ridge, which we had no sooner
crossed than dismally grand prospect
opened before us. We overlooked valley
basin, marked with belts of stunted birch,
and stretching away for several milest the