203 . GENERAL REMARKS 
SECTION XL 
Of the Mode of Uarnejjlng the Rein-Deer, and the different Sledges 
that are nfed by the Laplanders—The Mariner of Travelling with 
Rein-Deer and Sledges „~ 
QUCH of the Laplanders as are rich make ufe of gelt rein-deer 
for their Hedges; they who are lefs wealthy content them- 
felves with a fledge drawn by a hind, or female. It requires great 
pains to break thefe animals to the harnefs; and fome are never 
to be taught at all, whilft others are brought to it by perfeverance,. 
and after a length of time. 
The gear, or harnefs of the rein-deer, is called by the Laplan¬ 
ders baggie. They ufe only a rein or thong for guiding the deer, 
which, like a halter for horfes, is faftened to the head of the 
beaft, whilffc the other end is held in the hand, being fixed by a 
loop to the right thumb. Over the neck of the animal is put a 
broad collar, made of untanned rein-deer skin, to which a rope 
is faftened of thongs cut from feai-skin, or the hide of an ox, and 
twifted together: this, rope paftes under the belly, betwixt the 
fore and hind legs, and is made faft to the fledge; the rope is 
covered with a foft skin-, that it may not gall the animal’s legs. 
Another 
