$02 
ounces of salt for each, they can 
support themselves for whole months 
on the vegetable -and  farinacious 
foods afforded by the woods. ‘They 
drink nothing stronger than -water, 
with which, when at a distance 
from springs, they are copiously 
supplied) by the wild pine, by the 
black and grape withes, which are 
about two inches in diameter, and 
the roots of the cotton tree. Of 
the last, six feet junked off the 
smaller part of the root, where it 
tapers to the thickness of a man’s 
thigh, will yicld several gallons of 
water. in the fgreatest drought 
these resources seldom fail. For 
the wild pine they are obliged to 
clinb trees; but that they do al- 
most with the velocity of-a monkey. 
This plant takes root on the body 
-of a tree} and the leaves of it are 
so formed as to catch the rain, and 
conduct it to a reservoir at the 
base, where being never exposed to 
the sun, it is found delightfully fresh 
and cool. But the easiest method 
ot obtaining water in the woods, 
and with less delay on a march, is 
from the black and grape withes : 
it is done with greater expedition 
than drinking at a spring. The 
ehasseur catches a pendent withe, 
which, with his muschet, he divides 
about two feet from the ground, 
and applies the end of the withe, 
as it hangs, to his mouth, or to his 
dog’s, who indicates his thirst: he 
then cuts the withe off, about six 
_ feet higher, keeping the upper end 
elevated, when the air being ad- 
mitted above, he receives, through 
the porous fibres of it, near a quart 
of delightful cold water. With re- 
speé& to animal food, if any of them 
happen to desire it, they find no 
dificulty in obtaining it. The little 
finder, if set.on, but.not otherwise, 
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will soon bay one of the wild -hegs, 
with which the woods abound; the 
animal, retreating for shelter to the 
trunk of a tree, is immediately trans- 
fixed with a lance. , The men cure 
as much of the flesh as they think 
they will have occasion for, by 
scoring it internally to the skin, 
sprinkling it with salt, and smoking 
it; over the smoke they throw some 
aromatic leaves, which not only add 
to its flavour, but assist im pre- 
serving it. The meat thus cured 
will keep for months, and is esteem- 
ed a very great dainty by the most 
refined epicures. It is, in fact, like 
the jirked hog, already mentioned 
in the account of the Maroon mode 
of life. The part of the hog not 
preserved, is given to the dogs. The 
pursuit of the game is entirely the 
province of the finder; the larger 
dogs, from their training, would 
pass a hog without- notice ; were 
one of them to bark at a hog, he 
would be severely punished. The 
chasseurs beat their dogs most un- 
mercifully, using the flat sides of their 
heavy muschets. When they are 
going out on service, the Jarge 
chains in which they are kept at 
home are taken off, and a light, but 
well twisted, cotton rope substituted, . 
to which the muzzle and collar, join- 
ed together, are attached at one 
end, while the other is fixed to the 
belt of the chasseur; who, when a 
pursuit is to be made, slips them off, 
securing them round his waist with 
the rope to which they are tied, 
draws his muschet, and pushes for- 
ward nearly as fast as his dogs; for 
the latter are impeded by the under- 
wood, and are sometimes so en- 
tangled as to require the assistance 
of their masters to cut their way 
through the difficulty which ob- 
structs their proceeding. Thegreatest 
privation 
