134 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



this animal has hitherto been excited only by 

 curiosity,, it is not likely that much attention will be 

 paid to it in a country like this, abounding with 

 such a variety of useful quadrupeds. 



The Rein-Deer is wild in America, where it is 

 called the Caribou. It is found in Spitzbergen and 

 Greenland, and is very common in the most 

 northern parts of Europe, and in Asia, as far as 

 Kamschatka, where some of the richest of the 

 natives keep herds of ten or twenty thousand in 

 number. 



In the neighbourhood of Hudson's Bay, there are 

 great herds of wild Rein-Deer : columns of many 

 thousands annually pass from North to South in 

 the months of March and April. In that season the 

 muskatoes are very troublesome, and oblige them 

 to quit the woods, and seek refreshment on the 

 shore and open country. Great numbers of beasts 

 of prey follow the herds. The Wolves single out 

 the stragglers, detach them from the flock, and 

 hunt them down : the Foxes attend at a distance, to 

 pick up the offals left by the former. In autumn, 

 the Deer, with the Fawns bred during the summer, 

 re-migrate northward. 



