S-EIN-jDEER. 
itiarkable clatter j which is heard at a great 
distance^ 
The Rein-Deer does not gallop, but has a 
rapid running pace : and, when hard pushed, 
will travel in a sledge between fifty and sixty- 
miles at a stretch ; but frequently, after such 
excessive fatigue, dies within a few days, if 
not previously killed by it's owner. In gene- 
ral, they can go about thirty miles without 
resting. 
The Rein-Deer sledge of the Laplanders, 
is a light vehicle, covered at the bottom with 
the skin of a young animal, having the hair 
turned outwards to slide on the frozen snow. 
The traveller, sitting on the sledge, guides the 
Rein-Deer by means of a cord fastened round 
it's horns 5 and Impels it forward with a goad, 
when his voice proves insufficient: just as a 
Horse is directed and driven with the reins, and 
a whip. The harness is very simple; being 
only a strap cut out of a Rein-Deer's skin, 
with the hair on, which goes round the neck, 
and passes between the legs, to be fastened to 
the sledge 
The 
