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imitating the cry of a panther. I repeated the cry 

 twice, when they all stood listening in considerable 

 consternation, and one of them cried out, " It is a 

 panther!" My brother's practiced ear, however, 

 detected the fraud, and he replied that he thought 

 it was a two-legged one, and would soon make his 

 appearance. As I came up, they asked what luck, 

 expecting I had killed something. I marked three, 

 and they asked, why I had killed three elk up there. 

 I told them to give themselves no uneasiness about 

 my elk, as they were as well able to take care of 

 themselves as ever. The rest of the party had 

 killed nothing. In about a week we had finished 

 three good canoes, each capable of carrying from 

 twenty-live to fifty hundred weight. We started on 

 another hunt, examining the country throughout, but 

 could find no elk. We then commenced hunting 

 deer. Three men stationed themselves on the creek, 

 about a mile apart, while the other, with the dogs, 

 scoured the woods. When he saw a deer, he let a 

 dog go, which would chase it to the creek, and as it 

 ran up or down the stream, would come within shot 

 or one of the men. If the man saw another deer, 

 he let loose another dog, and in this manner we 

 frequently killed three or four deer in a day. In 

 five days we killed fifteen handsome animals, one 

 being driven in by a wolf. We secured their skins, 

 tallow, and meat, and as the water was so low that 

 we could not get over the rapids with our canoe, we 

 continued to hunt. In three days we killed five 

 more, when a rain caused a rise in the water, which 



