308 A REINDEER HUNT. 



millions of dazzling rays ; the rapid leapt and 

 chafed in little ripples, which melted away into 

 the unruffled surface of the slumbering lake ; 

 abrupt and craggy rocks frowned on the right ; 

 and, on the left, the brown landscape receded 

 until it was lost in the distant blue mountains. 

 The foreground was filled up with the ochre- 

 coloured lodges of the Indians, contrasting with 

 our own pale tents ; and to the whole scene 

 animation was given bv the graceful motions of 

 the unstartled deer, and the treacherous crawling 

 of the wary hunters. 



