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GENERAL REMARKS 
SECTION XIII. 
Of the Quadrupeds and Birds in Lapland. 
"TplNMARK, or Norwegian Lapland, abounds in wild rein-deer ; 
“■** but as the inhabitants breed large numbers of the tame fort, 
their whole time is taken up in attending thefe, and they have but 
little leifure to hunt the wild, which are called godde. When the 
Laplander is inclined for the chafe in fummer or autumn, he 
takes with him a dog of good fcent, which feldom fails of finding 
out a deer in a very fhort time. As foon as the fportfman has 
roufed his game, he muzzles the dog that he may not bark and 
fright it away. If, on firing, he difcovers that he has only 
wounded the deer llightly, he unmuzzles the dog and fends him 
in purfuit; and as the rein-deer generally keeps the dog at bay, 
the man has an opportunity of firing a fecond time, when he 
rarely mififes killing. In autumn, during the rutting feafon, the 
Laplander drives fome of his hinds to thofe parts w 7 here he ex¬ 
perts to find the wild rein-deer, and upon a buck prefenting him- 
felf, he fires till he brings him down. It often happens that two 
bucks contefi: for the females, when the Laplander, ufing the ad¬ 
vantage of their being engaged, kills one, and fometimes both of 
them. 
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