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Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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f the subsistence ofthe tribes inhabiting the region it frequents. In the northern parts ofAsia, and Europe, the rein-deer has b^en domesticated for a long time ; 9 98 FAMILY REIN-DEER, and with the exception of the dog, is the only beast of draught orburthen possessed by the natives. The North American Indians, how-ever, have never profited by the docility of this animal to aid them intransporting their families or property, though they annually destroygreat numbers of them, for the sake of their flesh, hides, horns, &c. To the Laplander, they are of great importance, supplying the placeof the horse, cow, sheep, and goat. The milk is used as food, and isoften converted into cheese. Of the skins, a warm clothing is madefor winter, and when dressed into leather they are converted into stock-ings, and shoes, and light summer clothing. Harnessed to a sledge,a rein-deer will draw about 300 pounds ; but the Laplanders generallylimit the burden to 240 pounds. REIN-DEER DRAWING A SLEDGE.
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The trot of the rein-deer is about ten miles an hour; and his powerof endurance is such, that journies of 150 miles in nineteen hours arenot uncommon. There is a portrait of a rein-deer in the palace ofDrotningholm, (Sweden,) which is represented, upon an occasion ofemergency, to have drawn an officer with important despatches, the in-credible distance of eight hundred English miles, in forty-eight hours.This event is stated to have happened in 1699, and the tradition adds,that the deer dropped down lifeless upon his arrival. The number of deer belonging to a herd is from three hundred to fivehundred; with these a Laplander can do well, and live in tolerablecomfort. He can make in summer a sufficient quantity of cheese forthe years consumption ; and, during the winter season can afford tokill deer enough to supply him and his family pretty constantly withvenison. With two hundred deer, a man, if his family be but small,can manage to get on. If he have but one hundred, his subsistence

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