karahipi e karangatia ana ko te Zellidja Karahipi, e ahei ai etahi 250 taitamariki tane i ia tau, ki te haere ki te kitekite whenua. Na te Karahipi nei, i tae ai ahau ki te kite i te Kotahitanga o Amerika me Kanata. I muri i taku hokinga mai, i tupono ahau ke te tutaki ki a Paul Emile Victor, he tangata pokai-whenua rongonui no Greenland, a nana i tuhituhi tana ingoa ki roto i tetahi o ana pukapuka, maku. I tuhia e ia, “Ki a Jean Hardy, me te tumanako o te ngakau tera e rite Wawe ona hiahia.” I tutuki aua hiahia i taku whiwhinga tuaruatanga ki te Zellidja Karahipi, i tae ai ahau ki te Tuawhenua o Iuropi e tauria tuturutia ana e te huka, e te hukapapa—kia kite i nga tangata o Raaparana. He tino pokaiwhenua taua pokaiwhenua, i te mea, kahore ano kia tuhia ki te pukapuka i Wiwi, nga korero e pa ana mo nga Raape. Katahi ka tohungia e ahau tetahi rohe, ka whakatakotongia e ahau he huarahi, a, he ruarua nei nga mapi hei arataki i a maua ko taku hoa, ko Gerard Coppell, ka timata atu maua i tetahi ata i Hurae o 1952. No muri ke mai te haerenga tuturu, i to maua haerenga mo etahi rau maero, whakawhiti i nga mania, a i nga maunga, a i to maua rironga hei mema mo tetahi whanau Raape, ka taurimatia e tetahi whanau ano nei e kore e uru atu he tauhou. I mahi maua i nga mahi a nga Raape: i whakapakari maua i a maua kia taunga ai ki nga tikanga uaua o aua whenua hou; he maha nga mea i matua matatau maua i kitea ai kei hea te oranga. He uaua te ki, i timata pu a i mutu pu a Raaparana ki hea, i te mea ko ona “rohe” e whai ana i nga hekenga o nga kahui renitia, koia ra te Elder, dressed in traditional costume, works reindeer bone. Note particularly the cap with long red hairs sown to the front: he takes particular pride in these. (Unesco—Photo Jean Hardy.) Lapp village, with sledge on foreground. (Unesco—Photo by Jean Hardy.) activities; we struggled to adapt ourselves to the harsh life of those northern lands; we learnt a great deal before we became capable of ‘living’ in the full sense of the word. It is hard to say exactly where Lapland begins and ends, for its ‘frontiers’ follow the migrations of the reindeer herds which are the basic livelihood for these 8,000 Northern nomads. Thus, Lapland includes parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. For most of the year, the soil of Lapland is a frozen desert, but during the three summer months, the tundra awakens and there is life. It is a vigorous life, since it must be packed into so short a time. The nomads who have been sheltering from the severity of the long winter night in wretched, smoke-filled huts, half-buried in the snow, shake off their lingering torpor. Feverish activity reigns in the winter camp, for the herds of reindeer are moving away from the wooded districts of the taiga, where they have been subsisting on the scanty lichen hanging from the branches and on the bark of trees. The first rays of the April sun are already shining with a pale gleam as the reindeer gradually emerge from the shelter of the forest and move toward the lowest of the mountain valleys. For the Lapps this means a slow, difficult journey. The herd stops of its own accord among the foothills of the mountain range, in the warm thickets of dwarf birch-trees, for this is the moment when the reindeer fawns are born. The births nearly all take place within a ten-day period, and the