of the Long Night at Different
Places. 36

VI. Fine Weather Leaving Haparanda.--Windstorms succeed.--A
Finlander's Farm.--Strange Fireplace.--Interior of a
Cow-House.--Queer Food for Cattle.--Passing the Arctic
Circle. 40

VII. Skees, or the Queer Snowshoes of the North.--How They Are
Made.--Learning to Use Them.--Joseff's Instructions.--Hard
Work at First.--Going Down Hill.--I Bid Joseff Good-bye. 48

VIII. A Primitive Steam Bath House.--How the Bath was
Prepared.--What are the Twigs for?--I Ascertain.--Rolling
in the Snow.--Fine Effect of the Bath. 56

IX. How the Laps and Finns Travel.--Strange-looking
Sleighs.--Different Varieties.--Lassoing
Reindeer.--Description of the Reindeer. 60

X. Harnessing Reindeer.--The First Lessons in Driving.--Constantly
Upset at First.--Going Down Hill with Reindeer.--Thrown
Out at the Bottom.--Queer Noise Made by Reindeer Hoofs. 66

XI. The Last Days of the Sun.--Beginning of the Long Night.--A
Mighty Wall of Ice.--The Long Night's Warning Voice--The
Aurora Borealis and its Magnificence. 73

XII. The Snow Getting Deeper.--Lapp Hospitality.--A Lapp
Repast.--Coffee and Tobacco Lapp Staples.--Babies
in Strange Cradles.--How the Tents are Made.--Going
to Sleep with the Mercury at 39 deg. Below. 77

XIII. Toilet with Snow.--A Lapp Breakfast.--Lapp Dogs. Talks
with my Lapp Friend about the Reindeer.--Their Habits
and Various Forms of Usefulness. 89

XIV. Moving Camp.--Another Great Blizzard.--A Remarkable
Sight--Deer Getting their Food by Digging the
Snow.--How Reindeer are Butchered. 99

XV. Watching for the Reappearance of the Sun.--The Upper Rim
First Visible.--The Whole Orb Seen from a Hill.--Days
of Sunshine Ahead. 109

XVI. Wolves the Great Foe of the Lapps.--How the Reindeer are
Protected against Them.--Watching for the Treacherous
Brutes.--Stories of their Sagacity. 112

XVII. In Search of Wolves.--A Large Pack.--They Hold