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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



of the head, horns, and hide ; but the general method is performed 

 oy the whoie body. Several hundreds disperse in a' line, encom- 

 passing a vast space of country, fire the woods, and drive the 

 animals into some strait or peninsula, where they become an easy 

 prey ; and where foxes, racoons, bears, &c., are also objects of atten 

 tion, whose furs form articles of commerce with the Europeans. 



The Indians had a stratagem for taking deer by disguising 

 themselves in the skin of the animal, and the old histories inform 

 us that whr.n Maryland was settled by Lord Baltimore's colony, 

 the Indians instructed the colonists in the use of this stratagem. 



9HE INDIANS INSTRUCTING TUB COLONISTS OP HABVLAND IN 

 DEER HUNTING. 



