NORTHERN OCEAN. 
pafs prepared for their reception, where feveral 
Indians lie concealed for that purpofe. This me- 
thod of hunting is only practicable in Summer, 
and on the barren ground, where they have an 
extenfive profpect, and can fee the herds of deer 
at a great diftance, as well as difcover the nature 
of the country, and make every neceflary ar- 
rangement for driving them through the narrow 
defiles. This method of hunting is performed 
in the following manner : 
When the Indians fee a herd of deer, and intend 
to hunt them with bows and arrows, they ob- 
ferve which way the wind blows, and always get 
to leeward, for fear of being fmelled by the deer. 
The next thing to which they attend, is to fearch 
for a convenient place to conceal thofe who are 
appointed to fhoot. This being done, a large 
bundle of fticks, like large ramrods, (which they 
carry with them the whole Summer for the pur- 
pofe,) are ranged in two ranks, fo as to form 
the two fides of a very acute angle, and the flicks 
placed at the diftance of fifteen or twenty yards 
from each other. When thofe neceffary arrange- 
ments are completed, the women and boys {epa- 
rate into two parties, and go round on both 
fides, till they form a crefcent at the back of the 
deer, which are drove right forward; and as 
each of the fticks has a fmail flag, or more pro- 
perly a pendant, faftened to it, which is eafily 
waved to and fro by the wind, and a lump of 
mofs ftuck on each of their tops, the poor timo- 
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