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and quarters it. He then wraps the skin round the 
venison, and buries it in a hole in the ground, care 
being taken to prevent the gluttons and foxes from 
paying it a visit, by heaping heavy stones uponit. He 
then hurries home for his horse, and carries it away 
the following morning. 
Reindeer principally rely on thew keen sense of 
smell to guard against surprise. The sight of a 
human being does not seem to cause them much 
alarm. I once shot at a reimdeer which was a long 
distance off, and missed. Directly I had fired the 
animal stopped and quietly scrutinised me, then trotted 
off for a hundred yards or so, and stopped again. 
It was monstrously tantalising, for I had plenty 
of time to reload, only I was far out of shooting - 
distance. Sir J. Franklin remarks this peculiarity 
in the North American reindeer. ‘‘ Their curiosity,” 
he writes, ‘‘ often causes them to come close up and 
wheel round the hunter.” 
In the rutting time the Lapps frequently tie up a 
couple of tame does to serve as decoys, while they 
themselves lie in ambush. 
In the middle of the day the remdeer take their 
siesta, always selecting for this purpose as inaccessible a 
place as possible. It is then almost an impossibility to 
get within shot of a herd, as some of their number 
always do duty as sentinels. 
