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The extreme fondness of the rein-deer for salt cannot be better exemplified; for this animal had followed us from her natural abode on the top of the mountain to its base, and could not have performed a lesser journey than twenty miles.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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The rein-deer had frequently resorted to this water to drink, for the mud of its diminutive shore was everywhere indented with their hooves.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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We sailed towards it, and found behind it a tract covered with low wood, chiefly larch and pine: on landing we saw the tracks of rein-deer, which had just left the spot.
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The rein-deer moss being purely white, like hoar frost, the scarlet colour of the strawberry mingling thickly with it, conveyed pleasure to the eye, and a feeling of delicacy to the mind.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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The Norwegian examined these marks with much minuteness; and when he had satisfied himself that they were the hoof-prints of the rein-deer, and not of the smaller cows of the country, he thrust his hand into the salt-bag that was still suspended from his left side, like a good-sized rook's nest, and vociferated,
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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The country inland seems in general level, with some low hills, and many ponds; without wood, but overgrown with rein-deer moss.
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'A rein-deer could not transact this little business better. '
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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According to the hunters, he partly resembles the stag, the rein-deer, and the roe-buck.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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The Esquimaux had five rein-deer in the boat, which
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Our guide was determined that we should not quit the Sogne Fiord without some token by which we might remember it; and sending a messenger to the other side of the Fiord, desired that a certain number of his tenants or friends should go to the Reenfjeld, and bring as many rein-deer as they could secure to the foot of a mountain, which he specified by name, on the morrow.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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