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sledging. The cream-coloured deer are considered, 

 rightly or wrongly, to go best in harness. Fabulously 

 long journeys are recorded, and exceedingly lengthy 

 ones have undoubtedly been performed of several 

 hundred consecutive miles in a pulJca. If the Lapp 

 allows his reindeer to stray away to a great extent 

 during summer, he collects and guards them, as has 

 been mentioned, zealously and carefully during winter, 

 living, as he does, with, by, and off them, so to speak. 

 Their skins form his tent and part of his clothes. He 

 makes thread from the tendons, spoons and other im- 

 plements from the hoofs and horns, as well as glue. 

 The blood, dried and powdered, forms an important 

 article of his food. 



Eeindeer give but a small amount of milk, but this 

 amount is unusually rich in consistency, and the Lapp 

 is very chary with it. He makes cheese, but not 

 butter, with it, and the dried venison of the reindeer 

 forms his chief subsistence, which he also trades to 

 the Norwegians in exchange for various luxuries and 

 necessaries, including aquavit, of which ardent spirit 

 he is particularly fond. On first seeing these tame 

 reindeer one is struck by their diminutive size and 

 the miserably stunted and sometimes deformed horns 

 they carry. 



The Lapps assert that a reindeer can cause the tines 

 to appear on its horns at any particular spot by rubbing 

 that spot with its foot. In support of this they add 

 that a deer which is blind of one eye will have the 

 horns on that side deformed through its inability to rub 

 the required spots, owing to its loss of sight. 



