The Land of the Long Night

Name: The Land of the Long Night
Author: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)

Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)

Lapland -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature

XXV. A Dangerous Descent.--How to Descend the Mountains.--The
         Most Perilous Portion of the Journey.--Exhaustion of the
         Reindeer.--All Safe at the Bottom.--Arrival at the Shore
         of the Arctic Sea.                                          183

 XXVI. Sail on the Arctic Ocean.--The Brig _Ragnild_.--AEgir and
         Ran, the God and Goddess of the Sea.--The Nine Daughters
         of AEgir and Ran.--Great Storms.--Compelled to Heave To.     190

 XXVII. A Dark Night at Sea.--Wake of the _Ragnild_.--Thousands
         of Phosphorescent Lights.--A Light Ahead.--An Arctic
         Fair.--A Fishing Settlement.--How the Cod are
         Cured.--Fish and Fertilizer Fragrance.                      199

 XXVIII. Among the Fishermen.--Their Lodgings and How They
         Look.--What They Have to Eat.--An Evening of Talk
         about Cod, Salmon, and Herring.--The Immense Number
         of Fish.--A Snoring Match.                                  205

 XXIX. Departure for the Fishing Banks.--Great Number of
         Boats.--More than Five Thousand Oars Fall into the
         Water at the Same Time.--Quantities of Buoys and
         Glass Balls.--A Notable Catch of Cod.                       211

 XXX. A Great Viking Sea Fight.--Svein King of Denmark, Olaf King
         of Sweden, Erik Jarl of Norway, against King Olaf
         Tryggvasson of Norway.--They Lie in Ambush.--Magnificent
         Ships.--The _Long Serpent_.--Ready for the Fight.--The
         Attack.--The _Jarn Bardi_.--Defeat of Olaf Tryggvasson.     219

 XXXI. Sailing along the Coast of Finmarken.--Hammerfest, the
         Most Northern Town in the World.--Schools.--Fruholmen,
         the Most Northern Lighthouse in the World.--Among the
         Sea Lapps.--Men and Women Sailors.                          227

 XXXII. A Sea Lapp Hamlet.--Strange Houses.--Their
         Interiors.--Summer Dress of the Sea Lapps.--Primitive
         Wooden Cart.--Animals Eat Raw Fish.--I Sleep in a Sea
         Lapp's House.--They Tell Me to Hurry Southward.             232

 XXXIII. Comparison of Finmarken with Alaska.--The Two
         Lands Much Alike.--What Must be Done for
         Alaska.--Colonization.--Importation of
         Reindeer.--Protection of Fisheries.--Houses of Refuge.      241

 XXXIV. Preparation to Leave the Arctic Coast.--Great Danger of
         Encountering Melting Snow, or Rivers Made Dangerous by
         the Ice Breaking.--Reindeer Come.--Farewell to the Sea
         Lapps.--I Leave for More Southern Land.                     244

 XXXV. We Enter a Birch Forest.--The Reindeer are Soon
         Fagged.--Sleep on the Snow.--The Rays of the Sun Melt
         through the Snow.--Great difficulty in Travelling.--Meet
         Herds of Reindeer.--Reindeer Bulls Fight Each Other.        249

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