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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 20%
hour, the {kin is ftripped from the carcafe: the wound is made fo
’dexteroutly, that no blood iffues from it, but is found in the infide,
whence it is carefully taken out and inclofed within the paunch
that has been cleanfed and preferved for ufe. The hide 1s after-
wards ftretched out with fticks proper for the purpofe, and care-
fully dried: the fkin of the legs is firft taken off, and afterwards
ftuffed, that it may dry more expeditioufly.
If a mountain Laplander happen to be reduced to a {mall ftock
of rein-deer, he quits the mountains with his family for the fea-
fide, and betakes himfelf to fifhing, leaving the few deer he pof-
fefles in the charge of fome other perfon.
From what has been faid in the former part of this fection, the
reader will eafily recollect that the Laplander’s ftock of rein-deer
is tame, and bred under his own eye. It fometimes happens dur-
ing the rutting feafon, in autumn, that a buck of the wild breed
mixes with the tame herd: if he chance to efcape the bullets of
the Laplander, who ufes his utmoft endeavour to fhoot him, and
impregnate a female rein-deer, the fawn, which is the produce of
this irregular conjunion, refembles neither fire nor dam ; it isa
mongrel creature, lefs than the wild rein-deer, and larger than the
tame; for in general the wild breed are the largeft of the two.
This mule rein-deer is called by the Laplanders a hDaevrek.
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