NORTHERN OCEAN. 
being like that of the Moofe, that the nofe is 
fharp, like the nofe of a fheep: indeed, the whole 
external appearance of the head is not very un- 
like that of an afs. The hair is ufually of a fandy 
red; and they are frequently called by the Englifh 
who vifit the interior parts of the country, red 
deer. Their flefh is tolerable eating; but the 
fat is as hard as tallow, and if eaten as hot as 
poffible, will yet chill in fo fhort a time, that it 
clogs the teeth, and fticks to the roof of the mouth, 
in fuch a manner as to render it very difagree- 
able. In the Spring of one thoufand feven hun- 
dred and feventy-five, 1 had thirteen fledge-loads 
of this meat brought to Cumberland Houfe in one 
day, and alfo two of the heads of this animal un- 
fkinned, but the horns were chopped off; a proof 
of their wearing them the whole Winter. They 
are the moft ftupid of all the deer kind, and fre- 
quently make a fhrill whiftling, and quivering 
noife, not very unlike the braying of anafs, which 
directs the hunter to the very fpot where they 
are. They generally keep in large herds, and 
when they find plenty of pafture, remain a long 
time in one place. Thofe deer are feldom an 
object of chace with the Indians bordering on 
Bafquiau, except when moofe and other game 
fail. Their fkins, when drefled, very much re- 
femble that of the moofe, though they are much 
thinner, and have this peculiar quality, that they 
will wath as well as fhamoy leather ; whereas all 
the other leathers and pelts drefled by the Indians, 
if 
