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females and fawns suffer more than the 
males, as the young are obliged to be 
deposited in thickets, and the eagle 
and vulture are always watching over- 
head. The large brown snake is also a 
great destroyer of them, but the jaguar 
and wild-cat are their worst enemies. 
There are about four bucks to one doe 
in the herd, which shews what destruc- 
tion there must be of the latter. The 
colours of the deer are various, and 
mostly beautifully dappled upon yellow, 
white, and dun. The stag is generally 
of a dusky brown. Hunting those ani- 
mals is a source both of amusement and 
emolument to the Indian tribes in high 
latitudes, and they may be said to have 
brought it to high perfection. Having 
ascertained the haunts of the animals 
for about a week, the whole tribe as- 
semble before daybreak: some ascend 
the highest trees, to mark their pro- 
gress; others couch under leaves, so as 
to impound them when they betake 
themselves to their fastnesses ; then the 
whole tribe, men, women, and boys, 
stretch over a vast tract of country, 
and, assisted by their curs and horns, 
make every kind of hideous noises 
obliging them to quit their grazing spots 
white the dew is on the ground. As 
the deer assemble, they form in com- 
plete marching order, preceded by the 
elder or patriarchs, while the bucks of 
the second class bring up the rear, to 
protect the females and young, and 
repel any attacks. In this manner they 
arrive at their haunts; while the Indians 
advancing from all directions, prevent 
their retreat, by closing up all the em- 
bouchures or openings, and while the 
deer are forming in battle-array, pre- 
pare the instruments of destruction, viz., 
large lances, resinous torches, and nooses 
fixed to long poles. The women are 
also busy stuffing jaguar and tiger skins. 
The Indians having made proper cre- 
vices, dug into the grit and brown rock 
which form the paths, advance. The 
images of the wild beasts are now pre- 
sented, to intimidate the deer from 
breaking, which the bucks no sooner 
perceive than they make a violent effort 
to strike them into the gulf,—their ani- 
mosity to those beasts being such, that 
they often pass or leap over a man to 
get at them, The Indians then strike, 
and hurl them into the abyss below, 
where the women are ready to ham- 
string or disable them, before they re- 
cover from their stupor. When the 
hunters can no longer provoke them to 
rush on the stuffed tigers, &c,, they 
On M‘Adamizing the Streets of the Metropolis. 
[Dec. 1, 
make signals to those overhead to throw 
lighted flambeaux amongst them. This 
causes them to make a desperate effort 
to escape, and when the Indians have 
hurled a sufficient number down the 
precipices, they suffer the females and 
the fawns, and some of the bucks, to 
escape. Indeed, they seem very n:uch 
averse to destroying a doe at all, and 
always liberate the doe fawns. In those 
excursions they take on an average from 
four to five hundred. In taking the 
Ciervo Grande, or Large Stag, they sel- 
dom get more than from thirty to fifty ; 
but cf the mountain-goat they catch an 
immense number; they enter the caverns 
in the rocks by night, and pursue them 
by toreh-light; and frequently yoke a 
great many of them together alive, al- 
though the flesh loses its flavour from 
the effort to domesticate them, and they 
scarcely ever lose their native wildness. 
A full-grown fallow-deer could be bought 
at Valentia for seven pisettos, or about 
five shillings British. During the hunt- 
ing season, the Creoles sometimes hunt, 
but the Indians are more expert. 
ices ts 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir: 
WAS pleased to see, in your number 
published November 1, S. W.’s re- 
marks relative to the wild scheme of 
M‘Adamizing the streets of this metro- 
polis, with all of which I agree, and 
sincerely hope, with him, that the mem- 
bers of every paving ‘board in London 
will “ look before they leap” into so 
manifest an absurdity; for what is it 
that parishes are called on to do? Why, 
truly, to tear up and destroy an excel- 
lent granite pavement, which has been 
laid down at the expense of many thou- 
sands of pounds; this is to be broken 
into small pieces, and, with other mate- 
rials, made into a road at a fresh (and 
by no means smail) expense. We are 
told that part of the pavement taken up 
may be sold towards paying the cost of 
the new road; but if all the London 
parishes were mad enough to adopt-this 
plan, who, let me ask, would want fine 
solid squares of granite, when any bro- 
ken bits would do as well. 
Thus parishes are modestly asked to 
destroy all that they know to be good, 
and which it has been the work of many 
years to bring to the state of perfec- 
tion in which it now is (at least as com- 
pared with the pavements of “ the olden 
time’”’), and to adopt a new plan, be- 
cause Mr. M‘Adam has found it to 
answer well in the country! That HE 
Jinds 
