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cent look and agreed to my wishes. He selected 

 from out of his group of five deer the most quiet- 

 looking and solemn, and harnessing it delivered the 

 reins to me. Hardly had I seated myself before the 

 beast began dancing about, now on his fore-legs, now 

 on his hind-legs, sometimes even rolling over and 

 over in the snow. I took in the situation. In 

 order to "pay me off" for occasioning him some 

 trouble in changing my deer, the wapoos had given 

 me a wild, or at least only a partly trained animal. 

 However, I would not be beaten, and accordingly 

 kept my seat, allowing the brute to race round and 

 round with me in its wake. I held on as if " for 

 dear life." At last an unexpected thing happened to 

 me. My deer, suddenly leaving off galloping in a 

 circle, made a dash for the centre of our cavalcade, 

 jumping over the packing poolks, and finally over the 

 unfortunate amtmand, who, with arms and legs out- 

 stretched, gasped for breath on coming from under 

 the panting deer. After this escapade it was useless 

 to attempt managing it alone ; and so, in spite of my 

 protestations, I was tied fast to the other poollis and 

 was in this ignominious fashion dragged several miles, 

 decidedly thankful when I was again allowed to get 



ick my old steady-going jog-trot beast. 

 After six hours we came to the ruins of what had 

 formerly been a fjeld-stue, having accomplished half 

 DUT day's distance, though by far the tougher part 



ras that before us. This fjeld-stue, Malasjok, was 



