312 THE LAPLAND ALPS. 



place where they are accustomed to be milk.- 

 ed, they all lie clown, breathing hard and 

 panting violen tl}^, chewing the cud all the 

 while. The report oi" SchefFer therefore, 

 that they do not ruminate, is false, and 

 Ray guessed more correctly than SchefFer 

 observed. 



When the faw^n is missed by its mother, 

 she runs in search of it with the most vio- 

 lent anxiety, stooping with her nose to the 

 ground like a sow, till she finds it. She 

 even quits the herd to which she belongs, 

 and seeks her young at the Laplander's hut. 



After the herd has lain down in the man- 

 ner above described, each of the people 

 takes a small rope, and, making a noose, 

 throws it over the head of one of the fe- 

 males intended to be milked. The cord 

 is afterwards twisted round the horns, and 

 the other end tied to a small pole fixed in 

 the ground. One pole is suflftcicnt to secure 

 four of the animals, which all hands are 

 afterwards employed in milking, both mas- 

 ter and mistress, men and maids. If the 



