2o8 OBober 1748. 



run into the wood for its food, and towards 

 night it returned home, and frequently- 

 brought a wild deer out of the wood, giv- 

 ing its matter an opportunity to moot it. 

 Several people have therefore tamed young 

 deer, and make ufe of them for hunting 

 wild deer, or for decoying them home, 

 efpecially in the time of their rutting. 



Beavers have been fo tamed that they 

 have gone on fifhing, and brought home 

 what they had caught to their matters. 

 This often is the cafe with Otters, of which 

 I have feen fome, which were as tame as 

 dogs, and followed their matters wherever 

 they went ; if he went out in a boat, the 

 otter went with him, jumped into the 

 water, and after a while came up with a 

 fifh. The Opqjjum, can likewife be tam- 

 ed, fo as to follow people like a dog. 



The Raccoon which we ( Swedes) call 

 Siupp, can in time be made fo tame as to 

 run about the ttreets like a domeftic animal ; 

 but it is impoffible to make it leave off its 

 habit of ftealing. In the dark it creeps to 

 the poultry, and kills in one night a whole 

 flock. Sugar and other fweet things mutt 

 be carefully hidden from it, for if the chefts 

 and boxes are not always locked up, it gets 

 into them, eats the fugar, and licks up the 

 treacle with its paws : the ladies therefore 



have 



