The Land of the Long NightDu Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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The Land of the Long Night
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
Lapland -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature
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 a
Consultation.--Their Fierce Attack on the
Reindeer.--Pursuing Them on Skees.--Killing the
Chief of the Pack. 122
XVIII. Great Skill of the Lapps with Their Skees.--Leaping over
Wide Gullies and Rivers.--Prodigious Length of Their
Leaps.--Accuracy of Their Coasting.--I Start Them by
Waving the American Flag. 129
XIX. We Encounter More Wolves.--My Guide Kills Two with
his Bludgeon.--A Visiting Trip with a Lapp
Family.--Extraordinary Speed of Reindeer.--We
Strike a Boulder.--Lake Givijaervi.--Eastward Again. 136
XX. The Lapp Hamlet of Kautokeino.--A Bath in a Big Iron
Pot.--An Arctic Way of Washing Clothes.--Dress and
Ornaments of the Lapps.--Appearance and Height of
the Lapps.--Givijaervi.--Karasjok. 142
XXI. Leave Karasjok still Travelling Northward.--The River
Tana.--River Lapps.--Filthy Dwellings.--On the Way
to Nordkyn.--The Most Northern Land in Europe. 150
XXII. Leave Nordkyn.--Frantic Efforts of the Reindeer to Keep
their Footing on the Ice.--The Bear's Night.--Foxes
and Ermines.--Weird Cries of Foxes.--Building Snow
Houses.--Shooting-boxes.--Killing Foxes.--Traps for
Ermines.--A Snow Owl. 155
XXIII. Jakob Talks to Me about Bears.--The Bear's Night.--Watching
a Bear Seeking for Winter Quarters.--They Are Very
Suspicious.--I Tell a Bear Story in my Turn. 165
XXIV. Preparations for Crossing the Mountains to the Arctic
Ocean.--Decide to Take the Trail to the Ulf Fjord.--Houses
of Refuge.--A Series of Terrific Windstorms in the
Mountains.--Lost.--Gloomy Reflections.--A Happy Reunion. 170
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