10 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



The Copper Indians find by experience that a 

 white dress attracts them most readily, and they 

 often succeed in bringing them within shot, by 

 kneeling and vibrating the gun from side to side, 

 in imitation of the motion of a deer's horns when 

 he is in the act of rubbing his head against a stone. 



The Dog.Rib Indians have a mode of killing 

 these animals, which though simple, is very suc- 

 cessful. It was thus described by Mr. Wentzel, 

 who resided long amongst that people. The 

 hunters go in pairs, the foremost man carrying in 

 one hand the horns and part of the skin of the 

 head of a deer, and in the other a small bundle of 

 twigs, against which he, from time to time, rubs 

 the horns, imitating the gestures peculiar to the 

 animal. His comrade follows treading exactly 

 in his footsteps, and holding the guns of both in 

 a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project 

 under the arms of him who carries the head 

 Both hunters have a fiUet of white skin round 

 their foreheads, and the foremost has a strip of 

 the same kind round his wrists. They approach 

 the herd by degrees, raising their legs very 

 slowly, but setting them down somewhat sud- 

 denly, after the manner of a deer, and always 

 taking care to lift their right or left feet simultane- 

 ously. Ifany of the herd leave off feeding to 



