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A JOURNEY TO THE 
1770, 18 performed by means of a few logs, fo arranged 
\-—~ that when the martin attempts to take away the 
April. 
bait laid for him, he with very little ftruggle pulls 
down a {mall poft that fupports the whole weight 
of the trap; when, if the animal be not killed by 
the weight of the logs, he is confined rill he be 
frozen to death, or killed by the hunter going 
his rounds. 
To {nare partridges requires no other procefs 
than making a few little hedges acrofs a creek, or 
a few fhort hedges projecting at right angles from 
the fide of an ifland of wiJlows, which thofe birds 
are found to frequent. Several openings mutt 
be left in each hedge, to admit the birds to pafs 
through, andin each of them a fnare mutt be fet; 
- fo that when the partridges are hopping along the 
edge of the willows to feed, which is their ufual 
cuftom, fome of them foon get into the fnares, 
where they are confined till they are taken out. 
Ihave caught from three to ten partridges in a 
day by this fimple contrivance; which requires 
no farther attendance than going round them 
night and morning. 
‘Ihave already obferved that nothing material 
happened to difturb our repofe till the firft of 
April, when to our great furprife the fifhing nets 
did not afford us a fingle fifh. Though fome of 
the preceding days had been pretty fuccefsful, 
yet my companions, like true Indians, feldom 
went to fleep till they had cleared the tent of 
every article of provifion. As nothing was to be 
caught 
