244 TAMENESS OP THE DEER. 



shore, I imagine they congregate in great 

 numbers, and at that time they travel over 

 long distances of ice and land in search of 

 food. 



The hair of the rein-deer is very long, thick, 

 and close, and is of a slaty-grey colour, verging 

 into white about the stern and belly. The 

 hinds have horns as well as the stags, although 

 of a smaller size. They shed their horns 

 every winter, and numbers of these cast-horns 

 strew the plains where the herds have win 

 tered. 



The deer I had killed on the 25th were 

 reasonably shy and wild, as I think they had 

 been hunted by Ericson s boat s crew in the 

 lower valley a few days before ; but sometimes 

 they are incredibly tame and fearless, and I have 

 repeatedly known deer, which I had failed in 

 approaching unseen, to come up boldly of their 

 own accord until they were within easy shot of 

 me, although I was not only in full view, but 

 to windward of them ! I can only account for 

 this extraordinary temerity on the part of 

 these deer by supposing that they were indi 

 viduals which had been reared in some remote 

 part of the country, and had never seen a 

 human being, nor anything else which could 



