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Title: Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916
Subjects: Birds -- Europe, Northern Europe, Northern -- Description and travel Valdres (Norway) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, T. F. Unwin
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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h the harness-sledges are the long poles used in driving, which havebone rings fastened at the small end, plain generally, butsome carved (Figs. 12, 13). I ought to have mentioned that the collar and saddleare made usually of tanned leather when procurable, butuntanned leather is used for the rest of the harness,whilst the rein is plaited or twisted and the traces havethe hair still remaining on. The chooms we saw were two in number, and wereplaced a few yards apart, with their entrances towardsthe sledges ; and the smoke from the fire inside slowlyissued from the apex of the cone, or space at the junctionof the poles left for its exit. There were no deer in sight, and the only sign of lifeoutside the chooms was the bark of one of the doggies..On approaching nearer one of the brothers made hisappearance and began cutting wood, and we proceeded toexamine the sledges and the chooms. There were thirty smooth, slender, straight poles ofbirch-wood in one choom and the same number, or about
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?ia II Fi^ n h SAllOYEDES REINDEER HAEXESS. To jace puge olO. PET CHORA 511 the same number, in the other, meeting at the top andcrossing in sets of three or four, the ends well blackenedby the smoke. Eeindeer skins sewn together with sinew,and showing signs of long use by their tarnished appear-ance and multitude of patches, were wound in one or twolarge sheets round the poles, and kept in their place by athin strong cord of twisted sinews, which also lashed thepoles together at the top. Sometimes the covering of the chooms is made ofsquares or oblong pieces of birch-bark sewn together withsinew, and one which Alston and I examined near Arch-angel in 1872, belonging to a poor family of Samoyedeswho remain there winter and summer, was so covered. The space left for entrance has a folding flap of thesame material as the rest of the covering (which was alsolined with coarse sackcloth, probably old bags, or oldcoarse sailcloth), and was of triangular shape and abouttwo feet wide at the b

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