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a GENERAL REMARKS
SECTION XIII.
Of the Quadrupeds and Birds in Lapland.
| ie oaneraiey or Norwegian Lapland, abounds in wild rein-deer ;
but as the inhabitants breed large numbers of the tame fort,
their whole time is taken up in attending thefe, and they have but
little leifure to hunt the wild, which are called godde. When the
Laplander is inclined for the chafe in fummer or autumn, he
takes with him a dog of good fcent, which feldom fails of finding
out a deer ina very fhort time. As foon as the fportfman has
roufed his game, he muzzles the dog that he may not bark and
fright it away. If, on firing, he difcovers that he has only
wounded the deer flightly, he unmuzzles the dog and fends him
in purfuit; and as the rein-deer generally keeps the dog at bay,
the man has an opportunity of firmg a fecond time, when he
rarely miffes killing. In autumn, during the rutting feafon, the
Laplander drives fome of his hinds to thofe parts where he ex-
pects to find the wild rein-deer, and upon a buck prefenting him-
felf, he fires till he brings him down. It often happens that two
bucks conteft for the females, when the Laplander, ufing the ad-
vantage of their being engaged, kills one, and fometimes both of
them.
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