76 THE AMERICAN BISONS. 
of the buffalo have as yet been found in the Indian shell-mounds of the 
Atlantic coast,* while the bones of elk, deer, caribou, bear, and other large 
mammals and birds occur with greater or less frequency at different locali- 
ties.T 
large animals — nothing like the buffalo —in his several distinct enumerations of the ‘“ beasts.” —Hax- 
Luyt, Voyages, Vol. IL, pp. 231 - 290. 
Sir Francis Roberaul, in his account of his voyage up the St. Lawrence in 1542, says of the Indians: 
“ They feed also of Stagges, wild Bores, Bugles, Porkespynes, and store of other wild beastes.” — Hak- 
LuytT, Vol. III, p. 290. 
In Hariot’s account of Virginia, written in 1587, he enumerates among the beasts, “ Deere,” ‘“ Conies,” 
“ Saquenuckot, and Maquowoc, two kinds of small beasts, greater than Conies which are very good 
meat,” “ Squirels” and “ Beares,” and adds: “I have the names of eight and twenty severall sorts of beasts, 
which I have heard of to be here and there dispersed in the countrey, especially in the maine: of which 
there are only twelve kinds that we have yet discovered, and of those that be good meat we know only 
them before mentioned.” — Haxxuyzt, Vol. UI, p. 333. 
Tn the Report of Gosnold’s Voyage (1602) to Northern Virginia are enumerated “ Uae in great siore, 
very great and large : Beares, Luzernes, blacke Foxes, Beavers, Otters, Wilde-cats, very large and great, 
Dogs like Foxes, blacke and sharpe-nosed; Conies.” — Purcuas, Pilgrims, Vol. IV, p. 1653. 
- Martin Pring, in the account of his voyage (made in 1603), speaks of the “ Beasts” of Northern. Vir- 
ginia, as follows: “We saw here also sundry sorts of Beasts, as Stags, Deere, Beares, Wolves, Foxes, Lu- 
sernes, and Dogges with sharpe noses.” Again, he says: “ The Beasts here are Stags, fallow Deere: in 
abundance, Beares, Wolves, Foxes, Lusernes [Raccoons], and (some say) ‘T'ygres, Poreupines and Dogges 
with sharpe and long noses, with many other sorts of wild beasts, whose Cases and Furres being hereafter 
purchased by exchange may yeeld no small gaine to us. ” _PurcHas, Vol. IV, pp. 1654, 1656. 
In James Rosier’s account of a voyage made by Captain George Waymouth, in 1605, to Wire: 
we find, in his enumeration of the products of the country, the following: “ Beassts. Deere red and 
fallow, Beare, Wolfe, Beaver, Otter, Conie, Marterns, Sables, Hogs, Porkespines, Poleats, Cats, wild 
great, Dogs some like Foxes, some like our other beasts the Savages signe unto us with hornes and broad 
eares, which we take to be Olkes or Loshes.” (Purcuas, Vol. IV, p. 1667.) The locality here referred 
to more particularly was the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, Virginia at this time including the north- 
ern portion of the Atlantic coast as far as it had been explored. 
Captain John Smith, in his Description of Virginia, published in 1606, says: “Of Beasts, the dee are 
Deare, nothing differing from ours. In the Desarts, towards the heads of the Rivers, there are many, but 
amongst the Rivers, few. There is a beast they call Aroughcun, much like a Badger, but useth to live on 
trees as Squirrels doe. Their squirrels, some are neere as great as our smallest sort of wilde Rabbets, 
some blackish or blacke and white, but the most are gray. .A small beast they have, they call Assapanick, 
but wee call them flying Squirrels, because spreading thier legs, and so stretching the largeness of their 
skinnes, that they have been seen to flie thirtie or fortie yards. An Opassam hath a head like a Swine, 
and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignesse of a Cat. Under her belly she hath a bag, wherein she lodg- 
eth, carrieth, and suckleth her young. Mussascus, is a, beast of the forme and nature of our water Rats, but 
* T have been assured of this fact by the late Professor J. Wyman, and by Mr. F. W. Putnam, and 
others who have made these prehistoric remains of the aborigines a special study. 
} See Wyman’s Account of some Kjekenmeddings, or Shell-heaps, in Maine and Massachusetts. — 
Amer. Naturalist, Vol. I, pp. 561 — 584, 1868. 
