90 THE REINDEER. 
search after their food ; yet, when upon 
their natural quickness of smell enabled 
to ascertain with almost unerring certainly' 
whether there was any moss growing beneat^| 
them or not. By the fineness of this sense ® 
the animal the Laplanders are chiefly guid^^ 
in fixing their different winter-quarters ; ne^'^'^ 
remaining in those parts which they know ivt 
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certainty produce hut little moss, from 
indifference of their deer, and the few 
tempts made by them to remove the snow.” 
In hunting the reindeer, the people of 
northern regions employ vai’ious ingeni^^';’' 
stratagems. Thus the Dogrib Indians go ‘'J 
pairs, the foremost man carrying in one h^®* | 
the horns and part of the skin of the head o^ 
deer, and in the other a small bundle of twif 
against which he rubs the horns from timo 
time, imitating the gestures peculiar to 
animal. His comrade follows, treading 
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actly in his footsteps, and holding the guo® 
