til, 
THE REINDEER. 
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® Laplanders seldom allow the weight to 
^^ceed two hundred and forty. They will 
about ten miles an hour, and it is not 
^oiiiinon for them to make a journey of one 
^||'’^dred and fifty miles in nineteen hours. In 
Palace of the King of Sweden, at Drot- 
. , Sholm, there is the portrait of a reindeer 
. ^^li is related to have drawn, on an occa- 
jj. ^ of emergency, an officer with important 
^patches the prodigious distance of eight 
^^^ored miles in forty-eight hours. Tradition 
that the animal dropped down dead on 
In 
^ng the end of his journey. 
V , summer the mountain Laplander is com- 
^*1 to take the most arduous journeys to 
®oa coast for the preservation of his deer. 
Ijy^ ^^oses of these migrations are thus stated 
De Broke : — 
^t IS ypgp known from the accounts of 
'll! ^^’avellers who have visited Lapland 
the summer months, that the interior 
