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trap, though now a thing of the past, is still remembered by old men. 

 Its main or fall part consisted of trunks of small trees united into a sort 

 of lattice work by means of muskeg pine saplings interlaced through 

 them. To ensure additional efficiency for the structure, large stones were 

 laid over it, heaps of which are still to be seen in several places, generally 

 close by the banks of salmon streams. I can find no native in a position 

 to satisfactorily explain the mechanism of this trap. All I can gather is 

 that it was very effective, not only against black bears, but even against 

 grizzlies. 



Fig. 8r. 



To secure martens and other small land .game, the Carriers never use 

 but the trap shown in fig. 80, which is very simple in construction. It is 

 merely composed of a fall stick a, one end of which is thrust in the 

 ground in an oblique direction, and which springs down on the transversal 

 or ground stick b, through the falling off of the pole c, resting upright on 

 the bait stick d. To prevent the game from getting at the bait otherwise 

 than through the trap, a rectangular enclosure is erected with small 

 pickets generally against, or close to, the bole of a spruce or pine tree. 

 Should the fall stick not exactly correspond in position with that lying 

 on the ground, the marten might survive the springing of the trap and 



