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of the rein-deer, a Email quantity of milk of the fame, and dried 
fiffi. A little further was a rude inclofure, or paling, made in 
hafte, which ferved as a told or yard for the rein-deer when they 
were brought together to be milked—thofe animals were not 
near the tents at the time we made our yifit: they were in 
the mountains, from whence they would not defeend till to¬ 
wards night. As we did not feel ourfelves difpofed to ramble 
about in quell of them, at the hazard of lofmg ourfelves among a 
feries of mountains, exhibiting throughout an uniform appear¬ 
ance, we judged it more advifable to offer fome brandy to the 
Laplanders, on condition that they would go with their dogs and 
bring the rein-deer home, or as near as they could to the tent. 
Scarcely had they fwallowcd the brandy, which we had given 
them as an earned: of more, when we heard the fhrill barking of 
the dogs refounding through the mountains. The Laplanders 
then told us that the rein-deer were coming; and very fhortly 
after we beheld a troop of not lefs than three hundred deer de¬ 
feend ing from the mountains in a direction towards the tent. We 
then infilled that they fhould drive the rein-deer within the in¬ 
clofure near the tent, that we might have an opportunity of feeing 
and examining them the better, and tafting the milk frefh from 
the does. They did as we defired ; but not without very great 
difficulty, becaufe the animals, not being accuftomed to be fhufc 
up in the fold at that hour of the day, were unwilling to 
be confined, and it was not till after repeated efforts that the 
Laplanders were able at lafl, with the affiftance of the dogs, to 
compel 
