REIN-DEER. 



Mode of taking rein-deer. 



by the concealed hunters, who drive them to , 

 their" companions that are provided with arms, 

 and these immediately commit terrible devasta- 

 tion among them. 



If a wild herd be discovered feeding near a 

 mountain, the hunters hang up all their clothes 

 on stakes about the foot of the mountain, mak- 

 ing also with the aforementioned pinions a broad 

 passage towards it^ into which they drive the 

 game. As soon as they are come into this path, 

 the women go with their sledges directly across 

 the farther end of it, and thus enclose the rein- 

 deer ; who immediately run round the mountain, 

 and at every turn are saluted by a shot from 

 their enemies. 



In autumn, which is the season of love among 

 these quadrupeds, the hunters select a strong and 

 vigorous buck from their droves, to whose ant- 

 lers they tie nooses, and then turn him loose 

 among the wild herd. The wild stag, on ob- 

 serving a strange rival, immediately rushes for- 

 ward to punish his temerity; but, during the 

 contest, his antlers are so completely entangled 

 in the loops, that when he perceives the hunter, 

 and strives to escape, the tame buck strikes his 

 head to the ground, and there pins his antagonist 

 fast till the marksman can kill him. 



The rein-deer is found in Greenland and Spitz- 

 bergen, and is very common in the northern 

 parts of Asia, as far as Kamtschatka, where some 

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