Chapter 17

Peculiar Sleeplessness.--Tromsoee.--The Aurora Borealis.-- Short-lived Summer.--Flowers.--Trees.--Laplanders and their Possessions.--Reindeers.--Customs of the Lapps.-- Search for Whales.--Arctic Birds.--Influence of the Gulf Stream.--Hammerfest.--The Far North Cape and the Polar Ocean.--The Midnight Sun.--Stockholm, Capital of Sweden.-- Royal Palace.--Historic Upsala.--Linnaeus, the Naturalist.--Crossing the Baltic and Gulf of Finland. 261