Montreal. 



beavers, elks*, rein-deer -f-, wolf- lynxes J, and 

 martens. They fometimes get martens 

 fldns from the fouth, hut they are red, and 

 good for little* Pichou du Nord is perhaps 

 the animal which dbeg7^, near Hydfon's 

 bay, call the ipofoerene. To the northern 

 furs belong the bears, which are but few, 

 and foxes, which are not very numerous, 

 and generally black ; and feverat other 

 fkins, 



THE fkins pf the fouthern parts are 

 chiefly taken from the following animals : 

 wild cattle, ftags, roebucks, otters, Pichoux 

 du Sud 9 of which P.'C/iar/evvttf makes men- 

 tion , and are probably a fpecies of cat- 

 lynx, or perhaps a kind of panther; foxes 

 of various kinds, raccoons, cat-lynxes, and 

 feveral others. 



IT is inconceivable what hardships the 

 people in Canada muft undergo on their 

 journies. Sometimes they rnufl carry their 

 goods a great way by land $ frequently they 

 are abufed by the Indians, and fometimes 

 they are killed by them, They often fuffcr 

 hunger, thirft, heat, and cold, and are bit 

 by gnats, and expofed to the bites of poi- 



* Orignacs, 

 Cariboux. 



Leup cerviftrs., 



fin his tiift.de la Nouv. France, Tom, V. p. 15^- 

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