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i—~—~ on, fome of the boys and fool-hardy young men, 
Apil, 
the Indians in one of thofe chaces, but have heard many of them fay, 
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a diftance. For want of this neceflary precauti- 
who have attempted to rufhin upon them, have 
frequeatly received fuch unlucky blows from 
their fore-feet, as to render their recover very 
doubtful. 
The fiefh of the moofe, thus killed, is far from 
being well-tafted, and I fhould think mufl be very 
unwholefome, from being over-heated; as by 
running fo many hours together, the animal” 
muft have been in a violent fever; the flefh be- 
ing foft and clammy, muft have a very difa- 
greeable tafte, neither refembling fith, fefh, nor 
fowl*. 
The Southern Indians ufe dogs for this kind of 
hunting, which makes it eafier and more expe. 
ditious; but the Northern tribes having no dogs . 
trained to that exercife, are under the neceflity of 
doing it themfelves. , 
On the feventh we crofled a part of Thee-lee- 
aza River: at which time the fmall Northern 
deer were remarkably plentiful, but the moofe 
began to be very fcarce, as none were killed after 
the third. 
On 
* Though Iwas a fwift runner in thofe days, T never accompanied 
that after a long one, the moofe, when killed, did not produce more 
than a quart of blood, the remainder being all fettled in the fefh; which, 
in that ftate, muft be ten times worfe tafted, than the fpleen or milt of 2 
hacon hog. . 
