84 THE REINDEER. 
should be some miles in advance, from 
exquisite olfactory sense which it possess^’' 
In this case the animal, holding its head clo®^ 
to the snow, keeps frequently smelling, aS ^ 
dog would do to scent the footsteps of 
master, and it is thus enabled to follow, 
certainty, the track which the other deer ha''^ 
gone. Were it not for this property of 
animal, travelling across Lapland would 
not a little hazardous, particularly in tho’^ 
parts where the weather is the darkest, wb'*^! 
is generally while crossing the mountains 
Finmark. It often happens that the party 
unavoidably scattered, and the sound of ^ 
bell enables them to rejoin each other. 
bells, however, should the weather be tbi{^ 
and stormy, can only he heard at a short 
tance ; and it is then by the sagacity of 
deer alone that the difficulty is surmounted- 
When harnessed to a sledge, the reind® ^ 
will draw about three hundred pounds ; ^ 
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