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of doing it but by creeping after them, among the y79, 
| trees and bufhes, till they get within gun-fhot Py 
taking care always to keep to leeward of the 
mioofe, for fear of being overheard. In Summer, 
when they frequent the margins of rivers and 
lakes, they are often killed by the Indians in the 
water, while they are crofling rivers, or wim, 
ming from the main to iflands, &’c. When purfu. 
ed in this manner, they are the moft inoffenfive 
of all animals, never making any refiftance ; and 
the young ones are fo fimple, that I remember to 
have feen an Indian paddle his canoe up to one 
of them, and take it by the poll without the leaf 
oppofition : the poor harmlefs animal feeming at 
the fame time as contented along fide the canoe, 
as if fwimming by the fide of its dam, and look- 
ing up in our faces with the fame fearlefs inno- 
cence that a houfe-lamb would, making ufe of its 
fore-foot almoft every inftant to clear its eyes of 
mufkettoes, which at that time were remarkably 
numerous. 
I have alfo feen women and boys kill the old: 
moofe in this fituation, by knocking them on the 
head with a hatchet ; and in the Summer of one 
thoufand feven hundred and feventy-five, when 
Twas on my paflage from Cumberland Houfe to 
York Fort, two boys killed a fine buck moofe in 
the water, by forcing a ftick up its fundament ; 
for they had neither gun, bow, nor arrows with 
them. The common deer are far more dangerous 
| to approach in canoes, as they kick up their hind 
| S legs 
