The Laplander at her side patted her shoulder and nodded, saying in Swedish, "bra, bra!"

'Why, Sir, he must either mean the word Laplander in a very extensive sense, or may mean a voluntary degradation of himself.

The antiquarians maintain that three populations have inhabited the North: a Mongolian race and a Celtic race, types of which are to be found in the Finns and the Laplanders in the far North, and, finally, a Caucasian race, which immigrated from the South and drove out the Celtic and Laplandic races, and from which the present inhabitants are descended.

The only peoples in Europe whose languages do not belong to it are the Finns and Laplanders of the north, the Basques (Bȧsks) of the Pyrenees Mountains, the Hungarians, the Gypsies, and the Turks.