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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA, 
[chap. 
The Samoyed sleigh is intended both for winter travelling 
on the snow, and for summer travelling on the mosses and 
water-drenched bogs of the tundra. They are, therefore, con¬ 
structed quite differently from the ''akja” of the Lapp. As 
the woodcut below shows, it completely resembles a high 
sledge, the carriage consisting of a low and short box, which, in 
convenience, style, and warmth, cannot be compared to the 
SAMOYED SLEIGH. 
After a drawing by Hj. Tboel. 
well-known equipage of the Lapps. We have here two quite 
different types of sleighs. The Lapp “akja” appears from 
time immemorial to have been peculiar to the ^Scandinavian 
north ; the high sleigh, on tlie contrary, to northern Kussia. 
Thus we find ‘'akjas” of the kind still in common use, deli¬ 
neated in Olaus Magnus (Rome edition, 1555, page 598) ; 
Samoyed sleighs, again, in the first works we have on 
