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Title: The boy's book of modern travel and adventure
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Johnes, Merideth Harvey, William
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure stories
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton

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tout of white woollen, borderedwith gay colours, green Turkish trousers, and rein-deer skin boots, turning up at the toes after the man-ner of our fashionable gentlemen some centuries back.The head-dress is varied in colour, while its shapealmost defies description. Probably one of our cresteddragoon helmets, put on like a bonnet, that is, on theback instead of the top of the head, would give thebest idea of it. The dress of the men is very similar,with the exception, of course, of the bonnet, if wemust call it so, whose place is supplied by a red cap;both wear a knife in the girdle. This, w^e presume,was their holiday, as well as summer costume, put onfor the grand occasion of coming to town. Tobeauty of feature they have the sUghtest possible pre-tensions, at least according to our notions of beauty.Large mouths, little noses, Avith eyes (destitute ofeye-lashes) set slanting towards them, like those of acat, and high cheek-bones, make up faces that we ^should call excessively plain.
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A GROUP OF LAPLANDERS GOING NOKTH. 19 Their principal means of subsistence are hunting,fishing, and the produce of their flocks of rein-deer.The rein-deer is food, clothing, furniture, almost every-thing to the Laplander: it is his beast of burden, andhis locomotive. Only when a Lapp wishes to travelexpress, instead of harnessing the deer to hissledge, he fastens on his own feet an enormously longpair of skates, in which he glides over the frozen land,much quicker than his rein-deer either could or wouldtake him; for that intelligent animal will not permithimself to be driven beyond his strength. The sledgeis in shape not unlike a canoe, only square at the endwhere the traveller sits, instead of pointed; and it isconsidered to require no little dexterity to drive itwithout upsetting both sledge and cargo. A veryslight leaning too much to one side or the other, andthe traveller will most likely find himself, if it bewinter, suddenly ploughing the snow Avith his nose,instead of with the

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