188 BEHTDEER. 
,$nly delicacy they make from it is with wood- 
sorrel/ which being boiled up with it, and coagu- 
lating, the whole is put into casks or deer skins, 
and kept under-ground to be eaten in winter. 
The skin is even a more valuable part of this 
animal than either of the former. From that part 
of it w hich covered the head and feet, they make 
their strong snow shoes/ .with the hair on the out- 
side. Of the other parts they compose their gar- 
ments, which are extremely warm, and which cover 
them all over. The hair of these also is on the 
outside ; and they sometimes line them with the 
fur of the glutton, or some other warm furred 
animal of that climate. These skins also serve 
them for beds. They spread them on each side of 
the fire, upon some leaves of the dwarf birch tree, 
and in this manner lie both soft and warm. Many 
garments made of the skin of the rein deer are 
sold every year to the inhabitants of the more 
southern parts of Europe ; and they are found so 
serviceable in keeping out the cold, that even 
people of the first rank are known to wear them. 
In short, no part of this animal is thrown away 
as useless. The blood is preserved in small casks, 
to make sauce with the marrow in spring. The 
horns are sold to be converted into glue. The sinews 
are dried, and divided so as to make the strongest 
kind of sewing thread, not unlike catgut. The 
tongues, w hich are considered as a great delicacy, 
are dried, and sold into the more southern provinces. 
The intestines themselves are w r ashed like our 
tripe, and in high esteem among the natives. 
Thus the Laplander finds all his necessities amply 
supplied from this single animal ; and he who has 
a large herd of these animals has no idea of higher 
luxury. 
But although the rein deer be a yery hardy and 
vigorous animal, it not without its diseases. "We 
