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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 199
pofe, are found of the greateft ufe ; and fo well are they broken-in,
that they obey the flighteft fignal : this feems to be communicated
with as much celerity by the dogs to the rein-deer, which, though
ever fo widely difperfed, foon colleé themfelves in a body. In the
winter, when the herd is returned to the tent, and laid down to
reft, the Laplander, or his wife, goes out and counts the number,
in order to afcertain if any be miffing, and become the prey of the
wolf. The Laplanders feldom fail in difcovering when the herd
has fuftained a lofs of the kind, although it would appear no eafy
tafk when the number is very confiderable, which is now and then
the cafe; for fome Laplanders are faid to poffefs from one to two
thoufand head of rein-deer.
It has been ftated, that it is a rule with the mountain Laplan-
der to drive his herd of rein-deer, by turns, twice to pafture, and
twice home to his tent in the courfe of a day. In the fummer,
however, the gelt rein-deer, and the hinds, or females, are fuffered
to range the woods without a herdfman. In this feafon, likewife,
the hinds are for a certain time allowed to fuckle their fawns ;
after which they are driven into an inclofure made with branches
of trees, at fome {mall diftance from the tents, where the women,
whofe peculiar office it is, befmear the dugs of the hinds with
dung, in order that when they are fetvat liberty again, the fawns
may not fuck : after a proper time, the hinds are driven into the
fame inclofure, when their dugs are found diftended, and are
drained of their milk, being firft cleanfed from the foil. But thefe
animals do not readily fuffer themfelves to be milked, nor until a
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