ng a muscle of his face, and I succeeded in getting a
portrait which everybody recognised.

I gave him a piece of money, with which he was greatly delighted; and,
after a cup of coffee, in Herr Knoblock's kitchen, he went home quite
proud and satisfied. "They do not at all look like dangerous persons,"
said he to the carpenter; "perhaps they do not collect skulls. I wish
they spoke our language, that I might ask them how people live in their
country. America is a very large, wild place. I know all about it, and
the discovery of it. I was not there myself at the time, but Jenis
Lampi, who lives in Kittila, was one of the crew of the ship, and he
told me how it happened. Jenis Lampi said they were going to throw the
captain overboard, but he persuaded them to give him three days, and on
the third day they found it. Now I should like to know whether these
people, who come from that country, have laws as we have, and whether
they live as comfortably." So saying, Isaaki Anderinpoika Niemi
departed.

No sooner had he gone than the old Lapp woman, Elsa, who had been sent
for, drove up in her pulk, behind a fast reindeer. She was in complete
Lapp costume--a blue cloth gown with wide sleeves, trimmed with scarlet,
and a curious pear-shaped cap of the same material, upon her head. She
sat upon the floor, on a deerskin, and employed herself in twisting
reindeer sinews, which she rolled upon her cheek with the palm of her
hand, while I was sketching her. It was already dark, and I was obliged
to work by candle light, but I succeeded in catching the half-insane,
witch-like expression of her face. When I took the candle to examine her
features more closely, she cried out, "Look at me, O son of man!" She
said that I had great powers, and was capable of doing everything, since
I had come so far, and could make an image of her upon paper. She asked
whether we were married, saying we could hardly travel so much if we
were; yet she thought it much better to be married and stay at home. I
gave her a rigsdaler, which she took with joyful surprise, saying,
"What! am I to get my coffee and tobacco, and be paid too? Thanks, O son
of man, for your great goodness!" She chuckled very much over the
drawing, saying that the dress was exactly right.

In the afternoon we took another reindeer drive to Muonioniska, paying a
visit to Pastor Fali, the clergyman whom we had met at Forstrom's. This
time I succeeded very well, making the trip without a s