A Summer in Norway: With Notes on the Industries, Habits, Customs and Peculiarities of the People, the History and Institutions of the Country, Its Climate, Topography and Productions ; Also, an Account of the Red-deer, Reindeer and ElkJansen, McClurg, 1875 - 401 páginas |
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A Summer in Norway: With Notes On the Industries, Habits, Customs and ... John Dean Caton Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 75 - There is now and then one who is constantly saying " things arn't as they used to be," and croaking about " new fangled machines," and saying,. " there is nothing like the good old way." But the good old way of going to mill on horseback with the corn in one end of the bag and a stone in the other...
Página 367 - Sweden was elected in his place, as king of Norway. On the 4th of November, 1814, he accepted the constitution, on which day it is therefore dated. It comprises 112 articles, the first of which declares, that " Norway shall be a free state, independent, indivisible, and inalienable, united to Sweden under the same king." On the death of Charles XIII., in 1818, Bernadette ascended the throne of Norway, as Charles John XIV. Desirous of introducing several important alterations in the institutions of...
Página 214 - ... overnight. That is a contract arrangement. Transients are people who come to the city of Washington because they have business in Washington. They come to see the VA or they come to contact their Congressmen. Many of them are drifters, wandering from one place to the other. Some have a pattern, they migrate to the North in the summer and to the South in the winter. We see some every couple of years when they are passing through the District of Columbia. They can stay an average of three nights....
Página 223 - According to JD Caton, who made a study of the reindeer while traveling in northern lands, this is not true of the deer of Norway and Lapland. He says none were spotted as we see our cattle spotted with well-defined margins to the different colors, but the colors were confluent, so that portions would be gray or roan. These animals were undoubtedly, when in their wild state, of the same uniform color as the wild deer now inhabiting those regions, and the change is the result of their domestication....
Página 229 - ... contundit." In the same manner the process is described in modern times by JD Caton,2 The Lapp perform the operation with their teeth; the glands are bruised or crushed without breaking the skin. No other mode of castration has ever been known among the Lapp. This imperfect operation is probably sufficient for their purposes, for it so subdues the natural ferocity of the animal as to subject him to control, while it leaves enough of spirit to make his services highly sufficient. Were it carried...
Página 238 - During that examination, with the animal so close before me, and made still more critical by handling it, I became entirely convinced of the specific identity of the reindeer of Lapland and the woodland caribou of America, and in this opinion I was only confirmed by a subsequent examination of the wild reindeer of Norway...
Página 238 - Tod has obtained a trace, but it would be foreign to my present purpose to enter upon a subject so vast and so remote.
Página 251 - ... we longed for darkness and for night. Do what we could to darken the windows to keep out the light, still it was not night as nature makes it, and which the habit of a lifetime had rendered necessary to sound repose. Artificial darkness, especially when incomplete, is as far from night as artificial light is from day.
Página 229 - ... breaking the skin. No other mode of castration has ever been known among the Lapp. This imperfect operation is probably sufficient for their purposes, for it so subdues the natural ferocity of the animal as to subject him to control, while it leaves enough of spirit to make his services highly sufficient. Were it carried as far as with us, it might so destroy his energy as to leave him practically useless.1 The Ostyak designate the gelded reindeer xatri, which, according to S. Patkanov,4 is a...
Página 311 - These sunny nights can hardly conduce to health, they steal away so much of sleep. One does not readily get sleepy in the sunshine, and then we are so apt to forget to look at the watch to see if it is time to retire.