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Title: Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902
Subjects: Arctic regions Iceland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
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ation connected with it, which I am bound to mention.It was in the streets of Hammerfest that I first set eyes on aLaplander. Turning round the corner of one of the ill-builthouses, we suddenly ran over a diminutive little personagein a white woollen tunic, bordered with red and yellow stripes,green trousers, fastened round the ankles, and reindeer boots,curving up at the toes like Turkish slippers. On her head—for notwithstanding the trousers, she turned out to be a lady—was perched a gay parti-coloured cap, fitting close roundthe face, and running up at the back into an overarchingpeak of red cloth. Within this peak was crammed—as Iafterwards learnt—a piece of hollow wood, weighing abouta quarter of a pound, into which is fitted the wearers backhair; so that perhaps, after all, there does exist a more in-convenient coiffure than a Paris bonnet. Hardly had we taken off our hats, and bowed a thousandapologies for our unintentional rudeness to the fair inhabitant Mkfflh ,;,^ (A
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  • booksubject:Arctic_regions
  • booksubject:Iceland____Description_and_travel
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