AS A BEAST OF BURDEN. 



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one encampment to another ; and it may be at times the 

 children, or even the females of the family; hut I never heard 

 of his being regularly used in Lapland for the saddle, as is 

 the case in parts of Siberia. Nothing can exceed his usefulness 

 as a beast of burden. " Several times," writes a friend, " I 

 had those animals to carry my baggage, and after taking them 

 ten to fifteen miles, all that was done was to slip them, and 

 they immediately set off at a hand-gallop to rejoin the herd." 



THE AKJA. 



In the winter time again, when the ground is deeply covered 

 with snow, the rein-deer is harnessed to a kind of sledge, 



