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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 193
from their very birth are nimble, and are foon able to run with
equal {peed and keep up with her dams. Every hind knows her
own fawn, let the herd be ever fo numerous,
If the hind be of an afh colour, her fawn at its birth is red, with
a {tripe down the back, and is then called mieeffe. This colour
grows darker, the red hairs falling off towards autumn, when it is
called zhiaermak. Some rein-deer, when full grown, are white
with afh-coloured fpots: the fawns of a white mother are always
white.
The hinds called by the Norwegians /imler, exceed the bucks in
fize ; many of them have fine branching horns, and fome few none
at all: the horns grow again as foon as fhed; the new ones ap-
pear at firft like two foft fwellings on the head, of a blackith co-
lour ; the {kin as they fhoot forth changes to an afh colour, and
peels off when the horns are near dropping. The horns are thick
at the bottom, but thinner as they {pread out, with points like
fingers ; and they are fo branching, that when thefe animals fight
they are often faftened by their antlers, and not able to extricate
themfelves without the afliftance of man. Their haunches are
the fatteft parts; and thefe are very much fo before the rutting
feafon.
The rein-deer is much infefted in the fummer by a fly which
creeps up its noftrils, and is on that account called by Linnzus
efirus nafalis: the Laplander’s name for it is the trompe. The
rein-deer is likewife fubje&t to a diftemper, which is contagious,
and fo fatal, that it often proves deftru€tive to numerous herds:
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