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By careful attention, however, and pxnl training, the Klk i-an be used as a beast of car- 

 riage or burden, and fnnu its great sue ami jn.wei is extremely valuable in that.cape< r . . 



Two varieties of HKIMO M: inhabit the earth ; the one, called the Reindeer, being placed 

 U]NIII the noi i hern portions of Kurope and Asia, and the other, termed the Caribou, being 

 i.--i i i. i4il to North America. \Ve will tint describe the EUK^-MH \ .u i. t \ 



This animal i> \- i\ \arialile in dimensions; the color is also variable, according to the 

 season of year. In winter the fur ia long, and of a grayish-brown tint, with the exception of 





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the neck, hinder quarters, abdomen, and end of nose, which are white. In the summer, the 

 gray -brown hair darkens into a sooty brown, and the white portions become gray. 



In its wild state the Reindeer is a migratory animal, making annual journeys from the 

 woods to the hills, and back again, according to the season. Their chief ohj.-rt in leaving the 

 forests in the summer months appears to be their hope of escaping the continual attacks of 

 mosquitoes and other insect pests that are found in snrh profusion about forest land. The 

 l-rim-i|ial plague of the Reindeer is one of the gad-flies, peculiar to the species, which deposits 

 its eggs in the animal's hide, and subjects it to great pain and continual harassment. Even in 

 tli>> domesticated state the Reindeer is obliged to continue its migrations, so that the owners 

 of the tame herds are ]>erfoire ohlij^ed to !><< .nn- jrtakers in the annual pilgrimages, and to 

 accompany their charge to the appropriate localities. 



The nature of the jterwcutions to which the Reindeer is continually subjected is well told 

 by a correspondent to the FVdd newspaper: "The herd looked very mi.serable, as I thought ; 

 there is nothing of the antlered monarch about the Reindeer, but a careworn, nervous expres- 

 sion, which I do not wonder at, considering how they are bullied. There are creatures which 



