THE RKIN-DEEK. 
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thus accomplishing 25 feet 8 inches in eveiy se- 
cond.* . ^ 
To give some idea of travelling in Lapland witn 
these useful creatures, we have abridged an account 
of a journey performed by Sir Arthur de Capel BrooUc 
in that country, and can recommend the perusal of 
his “ Winter in Lapland,” as a work of much inte- 
rest, and containing one of the best histories of the 
domestic condition of the rein-deer. 
The party of which Sir Arthur formed a part, 
were about to travel from Alten to Stockholm in 
sledges. They leave Alten ; but, at a distance of 
some miles, find themselves stopped by one of the 
streams being still unfrozen. Some of the party, 
among whom was our traveller, return to ten to 
pass the night, while others take up their quarters 
in the cottage of a Finlander, where the rendezvous 
was to take place again early next morning. About 
nine o’clock the journey was to be again commenced. 
“ The morning was cold and stormy ; I was jaded, 
miserably tired for want of rest, and just on the point 
of being tied to the tail of a wild deer, and dragged 
at random in the dark, in a kind of cock-boat, some 
hundred miles across the trackless snows of Laplant . 
Our pulks were ranged together in close order , an( 
the wappus or guide having performed the last oflice 
for us, by tying each of us in as fast as possible, ami 
giving us the rein, jumped into his own, and then 
• Capol Brooke, p. 107- 
