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to shoot them as they raised their heads erect to look 

 at the light. Sometimes they would stand still long 

 enough for the hunter to bring down a second one 

 with the other gun. At other times they would start 

 away, when we would wave the light, and as they 

 ascended the bank they would become - frightened at 

 their shadows, thinking it was a wolf or panther 

 and run directly to the light, where they remained 

 looking at it, till we could get another and perhaps 

 two more shots at them. In tnis manner we would 

 proceed up the stream from fire to six miles, and in 

 that distance we could often kill from two to four 

 deer, and if the night was favorable we could catch 

 from sixty to a hundred eels, besides a quantity of 

 salmon, pike, and rock-fish. We would generally 

 fish while passing up the stream, and hunt in pass- 

 ing down. 



Fish and venison being so abundant in the vicinity 

 where we lived, and very scarce at the mouth of 

 Pine Creek, twenty-six miles distant, we used them 

 as articles of traffic, and by exchanging them with 

 inhabitants there, for wheat, rye, corn, buckwheat, 

 salt, -leather, and other necessaries, we obtained a 

 supply of those articles. The night before we were 

 to start, we would go up the stream from eight to 

 twelve miles, andjfire-hunt as we went down, arriving 

 at home in the morning, just as the others had the 

 load ready to start. "We would then load in our 

 fresh ven-ison, and as the river was rapid, we could 

 go down in time to dispose of our load and load for 

 the return voyage before night. As we had to ascend 



