THE REINDEER. 
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Inuring the summer, the reindeer pasture 
every sort of green herbage, and browse 
shrubs as they meet with. As 
. approaehes, their eoat begins to thicken 
^ remarkable manner, and assumes that 
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colour which is a peculiarity of the polar 
rupeds. In winter their only food is 
- which they discover instinctively be- 
the snow. On this extraordinary in- 
K De Broke has the following observa- 
\ 
The flatness of the country increased as 
Proceeded, and at times it was even diffi- 
to tell whether we were moving on land 
^ater, from the uniformity of the white 
^ce around us. In this respect our deer 
far better judges than ourselves, as, 
there might be a depth of some feet of 
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Surf. 
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^bove the ice, wherever we stopped for 
minutes on any lake, in no one instance 
cy attempt to commence their usual 
