THE REINDEER. 
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^itious situations to escape the gad-fly. From 
causes, the Laplander is driven from the 
^^®sts to the mountains that overhang the 
^'^>‘Way and Lapland coasts, the elevated si- 
j^ations of which, and the cool breezes from 
® Ocean, are unfavourable to these trouble- 
insects, which, though found on the 
are in far less considerable numbers 
, and do not quit the valleys ; so that 
® deer, by ascending the highlands, can 
them.” 
the cocoa-tree supplies all that is neces- 
y to the natives of the torrid zone, so does 
1‘eindeer furnish almost all that is needful 
the 
to 
^feti 
the existence of the inhabitants of the 
tic regions. They subsist on its flesh, milk, 
"l^d cheese ; the skin yields clothing and bed 
> the sinews serve for thread for the 
^ ^hing of sledges and fishing-tackle ; and the 
for a variety of domestic purposes. Thus 
^^'^deer constitute all the wealth of the Lap- 
