The Bible Douay-Rheims Book 31: Ezechiel

It seems customary in a book of travel to make frequent allusions to other voyagers who have journeyed over the same ground or at least the same district and to make constant references to them and give copious quotations from their works. Of course we ought to have gone to the British Museum before starting on our travel and there read up all books which in the least bore upon the country which we were going to visit. We omitted to do this firstly because we preferred to observe things for ourselves from our own individual standpoint unprejudiced by the way in which other people had observed them; and secondly from the far more potent reason that we made our actual start in a great hurry and had little enough time for any preparations whatever.However on our return to England we thought well to check the information we had garnered. So we duly provided ourselves with readers’ tickets for that institution and went to the British Museum Library and got down every book which seemed in any way to bear upon the country we had wandered over regardless of the tongue in which it was written. It was a surprise to us to learn (and may we add that the surprise was not without its pleasant savour?) that of all the volumes in that collection not one covered the route which we took during summer through Arctic Lapland. Many had gone near it from a gentleman of bygone date who wrote in Latin to Mr. Paul du Chaillu who chats about the larger part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. But we seemed to have stumbled across the one bit of Europe which has not been pilloried on paper at one time or another and so we here venture to take up a couple of note-books which were originally made for personal gratification and amplify them into a volume of letterpress and sketches which may haply interest others.CHAPTER I. LONDON TO VARDÖ WITH A FEW EXAMPLES OF HOW PLANS MAY BE CHANGEDThe wharves of Katherine Dock were black with many thousands of people and all their eyes converged on a little auxiliary barque which was working out of the basin under her own gentle steam. The barque carried a white tub at her mainmast-head was rigged with single topsails bore many white double-ended boats upturned on skids amidships and was decorated with sundry other matters which even to the shore eye would seem strange in London river. Stacked in her waist were bags of coal crates packing cases a couple of ice-anchors a tangle of trellis-work sledges and other quaint trifles which had not yet been struck below.Any craft more unlike the ordinary conventional type of yacht it would have been hard to conceive and yet the burgee of the Royal Thames Yacht Club fluttered out from above the white crow’s nest (or fouled the telescope rail as the case might be) and an English blue ensign hung clean and unfrayed from the mizzen truck as the mizzen gaff its more orthodox station had not yet been set up.CONTENTSLondon to Vardö with a few Examples of how Plans may be changedAcross the Varanger to Elvenaes with some Observations on the Fishing of the Finner Whale and a Narrative of Travels with a JewBy Canoe to the Neiden with an Account of the Russian Lapps’ Daubsfest at Boris GlebFrom the Neiden Elv to Enare See with Pungent Comment on the Habits of Finnish CarriersEnare See to Enare Town in a Square-Sail Viking ShipInto the Land of Horrible Flies: a Narrative of Personally-Conducted TravelInto the Land of Horrible Flies—ContinuedIn Touch with the Genuine Nomad with some Remarks upon his Domestic Deer his Treasure-Hoards and the Decay of his Practice in SorceryA Précis of Lappish History and a Narrative of Transit by Raft and Swamp to IvalomatiOn to Pokka with an Introduction to Prince Johann of LaplandThe worst Marches of allDown the Rapids to Kittila TownThrough to the Sea: a Progress in Post-Carts with Interludes of River-FerriesIllustrationsRinging a Bear TrackMidnight among the LofötensVa