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1O4 GENERAL REMARKS.
this diforder, for which no remedy has yet been difcovered, is an
affection of the fpleen, called the miltfyge; and as it is looked upors
as totally incurable, the Laplanders kill the deer as foon as they
find fymptoms of infection, in order to fave at leaft the {kin.
Mention has already been made of an infect which renders the
{kin of lefs value by perforating it: this infeé& is often deftroyed
by applying tar to the animal’s back; and from the fiy before-
mentioned, which attacks the noftril, the rein-deer is often relieved
by the {neezing occafioned through irritation. Rein-deer are like-
wife fubject to a diforder common to animals having hoofs; this
is the paronychia, by the inhabitants of Norway called the /ov-
fuge. The females have likewife {mall eruptions on the udder,
fimilar to that which at prefent is known in England by the name
of cow-pock.
The principal food of the rein-deer in winter, is a fort of white
mofs, called by the natives of Norway quit-moffé; its botanical
name is lichen rangiferinus. To come at this mofs the animal is
obliged to dig with its foot under the fnow. It fometimes hap-
pens, although but rarely, that the fnow 1s fo frozen that the rein-
deer is not able to get at the ground: were this to be the cafe for
any length of time, there would be great danger of the whole race
of thefe animals being ftarved and loft, to the entire ruin of the
Laplanders: but fo great, fays the miffionary, has been the kind-
nefs of Providence hitherto, that no fuch event has ever happened,
and perhaps never may.
The rein-deer which are tamed, and conftitute the chief wealth
of
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