78 
1771. 
{ese ata) 
March, 
A JOURNEY TO THRE: 
Northern Indians, who had been living there from — 
the beginning of the Winter, and had found a 
plentiful fubfiftence by catching deer in a pound. 
This kind of employment is performed in the fol- 
lowing manner : 
When the Indians defign to impound deer, 
they look out for one of the paths in which a 
number of them have trod, and which is obferv- 
ed to be ftill frequented by them. When thefe 
paths crofs a lake, a wide river, ora barren plain, © 
they are found to be much the beft for the pur- 
pofe; and if the path run through a clutter of 
woods, capable of affording materials for building — 
the pound, it adds confiderably to the commodi.- 
oufnefs of the fituation. The pound is built by 
making a ftrong fence with brufhy trees, without 
obferving any degree of regularity, and the work 
is continued to any'extent, according to the plea-_ 
fure of the builders. I have feen fome that were | 
not lefs than a mile round, and am informed that _ 
there are others ftill more extenfive. The door, OF | 
entrance of the pound, is not larger than a com. 
mon gate, and the infide is fo crowded with fall, 
counter-hedges as very much to refemble a maze;_ 
in every opening of which they fet afnare, made } 
with thongs of parchment deer-fkins well twifted |} 
together, which are amazingly flrong. Oneend } 
of the fnare is ufually made faft to a growing pole; 
but if noone of a fufficient fize can be found near 
the place where the fnare is fet, a loofe pole is fub- 
ftituted in its room, which is always of fuch fize 
and 
