Dan Meinertzhagen's Diary. 22 



found the egg. He says, he gets 3 kr. 50. for 

 Goshawk's eggs at Kaaresuandro. 



Kaarestiandw, April 14th.— We had a long 

 day to-day on the sledge, 42 miles from Suka- 

 mopio to here, from eight o'clock to nine. On 

 the way, we saw a herd of about 300 reindeer, 

 searching for moss in the snow. The Lapps 

 were just packing up and making their sledges 

 ready. There were about twelve men that we 

 could see with dogs, preparing to collect the 

 reindeer, and the women and children were 

 packing. On account of the distance we had to 

 go, we had no time to stop and watch them start. 

 A Lapp in a reindeer sledge passed us in the 

 evening. 



The reindeer is fastened by a single trace to 

 the underpart of the sledge. The trace passes 

 from between his forelegs, between his hind- 

 legs to the sledge. He is guided by only one 

 rein, which is whipped over from one side to 

 the other, and he keeps up a jogging kind of a 



