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those animals, which came about us like so many domestic 

 cattle. 



A large herd of rein-deer traversing the open country, 

 or the surface of a frozen lake, as the case may be, when 

 the Lapp is changing his encampment, is a very magni- 

 ficent sight. In the front walks a man leading a rein- 

 deer, or perhaps the man is quite alone, and only now 

 and then lockar, or calls to the animals, which, at a few 

 paces' distance, faithfully follow where he leads. In the first 

 ranks of the herd one commonly sees many noble males 

 half as large again as the miserable-looking animals, 

 exhibited some years ago at the Egyptian Hall who proudly 

 elevate their heads attired with large and branching 

 antlers. The rest of the herd follow one another in close 

 phalanx. It resembles a wondrous moving forest, whose innu- 

 merably branched crowns, with their rapid and constantly 

 shifting motion, make the most pleasing impression on the 

 eye and mind of the spectator. The Lapp sometimes calls a 

 great herd of rein-deer a Sava, or sea a figurative expres- 

 sion, beautiful as faithful, taken probably not only from the 

 immensity of the ocean, but from its surface being in con- 

 stant undulatory motion. It is not surprising that the Lapp 

 is proud of his riches. Even the sight of one of these great 

 herds of rein-deer causes the bosom of the mere spectator to 

 swell with emotion, and what must therefore be the effect on 

 the owner himself? 



Several dogs always accompany the herd. If a deer 

 separate from the rest, they, agreeably to orders from their 

 master, start off in pursuit of the deserter, whom they 

 give neither peace nor pardon until he has again joined the 

 herd. So soon, in fact, as the deer hears the dog bark, and 



