HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



HUNTING THE VIRGINIAN DEER. 



ACH of the American varieties of 

 the deer will fall under our notice 

 in the progress of the work. At 

 present, before taking leave of the 

 old writer to whom we are already 

 so much indebted, we will quote 

 his remarks on the hunting of the 

 common Virginian deer, the am 

 mal whose flesh is the venison so 

 abundant in our markets. 

 These animals are of the utmost importance to the American 

 Indians. Their skins form the greatest branch of their traffic, by 

 which they procure from the whites in exchange, many of th 



