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Snow lay heavily over all the country he would have to traverse the only means of conveyance was by carriole or pulkha the latter a sort of sledge used by the Laplanders, made in the form of a boat, and generally drawn by reindeer.
The capabilities of the carriole would be exhausted as soon as the snow-covered regions were reached and to manage a pulkha successfully, required special skill of no ordinary kind.
He had never realized to its full extent her strong, indomitable, devoted character, till he saw her hour after hour seated beside him in the pulkha, her hands tightly gripping the reins of the horned animals, whose ways she understood and perfectly controlled, her bright, bird-like eyes fixed with watchful eagerness on the bewildering white landscape that opened out incessantly before her.
But the courageous little Britta made short work of all these difficulties she could drive a pulkha, she knew how to manage reindeer, she entertained not the slightest doubt of being able to overcome all the obstacles on the way.
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