80 THE REINDEER. 
trained deer and an experienced driver. 
animal, if not properly broken in is unmanag^ ' 
able, and if the driver is inexpert, the de®^ 
especially if of the wild breed, proves resti''^' 
and will turn round and rid himself of him 
the most furious assaults. In this case I’’’ 
only resource is to cover himself with 
sledge, on which the enraged animal veP^J 
his fury. The conveniences and dangers 
this kind of conveyance are well depicted 
Mr. De Broke, in his recent narrative of “ 
Winter in Lapland.” 
“ The deer we had procured” — the travell^' 
was making a winter journey across the 
were as unmanagea 
1 ) 1 '^ 
could well be, none 
Vince just named — 
and unruly as deer 
them being well broken in ; and our first 
oflp was by no means a pleasant one, as, af^^^ 
tumbling with the quickness of lightning do''^ 
the steep bank of the river, the deer proce^^ 
ed at full gallop across a very rough and brol^^'' 
