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and not iinfrequently becomes so ema- 

 ciated, that, in many instances, death is * 

 the consequence. 



Towards the feast of St. Eric (May 18.) 

 in the following year, or within a fortnight 

 of that period, very rarely later, the females 

 bring forth their young. They do not co- 

 pulate the first year, and seldom before 

 the third, their progeny being found the 

 better for this delay. Indeed neither the 

 males nor females arrive at their full growth 

 and perfection before they are towards three 

 years old. 



The fawn, whether male or female, is 

 called the first year mesh ; the second season 

 the male is called on'i/ck, and the female 

 wheninL In the third year the latter, if she 

 has been covered, is known by the appel- 

 lation of watja or waja, which means a 

 wife ; if otherwise, she goes by the name of 

 whenial-rotha, the three-year old male be- 

 ing called wuhbers. In his fourth year the 

 male is termed koddutis ; in the following 

 one kosittis ; in the sixth machanis, and in 



