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206 GENERAL REMARKS
rein-deer is put to the ftern of the fledge, with a rein or halter
faftened to his horns: this ferves the fame purpofe as the breech-
ing belonging to the harnefs of carriages. It fometimes happens
that the rein-deer which is placed behind the fledge, by moving
forwards, does not anfwer the intention of checking its velocity
in the defcent ; in which cafe, after a trial, the animal is rejected,
and one found that is better trained and more docile. In going
down fuch hills as are lefs {teep, the driver can, by a dexterous
movement of his body only, regulate the fliding of his fledge, fo
as to have no occafion to tack.a deer to its ftern. Where the
defcent is of the fteepeft kind, a further fecurity is required,
namely, the rein-deer is taken from the head and made faft to
the ftern of the fledge, when the fledge, gliding down, brings the
animal after it, which ferves as a check to the precipitancy of the
motion.
The following 1s the method taken in tranfporting baggage in
the fledges before-mentioned, to which the Laplander gives the
name raido-kierres: the condu€tor of the train of fledges feats
himfelf in the firft fledge, to the ftern of which the rein of the
fecond fledge is faftened, and in like manner the reft follow to the
number of three, four, or five fledges, connected with one another,
each fledge being drawn by its refpective rein-deer, and guided in
the proper track by the one immediately preceding: the train is
clofed by a rein-deer not harneffed to any fledge, which is done
with the intention that in defcending any declivity this rein-deer
may be able to check and refift the impetuefity of the fledges in
their
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