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hour, the fkin is ftripped from the carcafe : the wound is made fb 
dexteroufly, that no blood iflues from it, but is found in the infide, 
whence it is carefully taken out and inclofed within the paunch 
that has been cleanfed and preferved for ufe. The hide is after¬ 
wards flretched out with flicks proper for the purpofe, and care¬ 
fully dried : the fkin of the legs is firft taken off, and afterwards 
fluffed, that it may dry more expeditioufly. 
If a mountain Laplander happen to be reduced to a fmall ftock 
of rein-deer, he quits the mountains with his family for the fea- 
fide, and betakes himfelf to fifhing, leaving the few deer he pof- 
feffes in the charge of fome other perfon. 
From what has been faid in the former part of this fe&ion, the 
reader will eafily recoiled that the Laplander’s flock of rein-deer 
is tame, and bred under his own eye. It fometimcs happens dur¬ 
ing the rutting feafon, in autumn, that a buck of the wild breed 
mixes with the tame herd : if he chance to efcape the bullets of 
the Laplander, who ufes his utmofl endeavour to fhoot him, and 
impregnate a female rein-deer, the fawn, which is the produce of 
this irregular conjunction, refembles neither fire nor dam ; it is a 
mongrel creature, lels than the wild rein-deer, and larger than the 
tame ; for in general the wild breed are the largefl ot the two. 
This mule rein-deer is called by the Laplanders a baevrek. 
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