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to give him plenty of elbow room at the supper table, 

 to make up the bunk without his assistance, and to 

 yield him several inches more space in it for the night. 

 And as Indian Jim's spirits were at high tide, he en- 

 tertained us far into the night with accounts of his 

 life and adventures with the Micmacs how they 

 lived, cooked, slept, hunted, trapped, danced, married, 

 fought, worshipped, buried the dead, etc., and how he 

 himself had hunted the great deer, beaver, seals, otter, 

 owls, grouse, foxes, bears and wolves the flesh of all 

 of which he declared to be good to eat " if a man was 

 hungry." 



Wednesday, October 24th. Thermometer 30; clear. 

 As Indian Jim desired to complete the "scaffling" of 

 the two fat does killed by the Kid yesterday, the 

 writer went with him. Saw seven and could have 

 killed three, but as they were does and stags with com- 

 paratively small antlers, the opportunities were al- 

 lowed to pass with the deer. Returned to camp by 

 late dinner time ; and as Martin Williams had com- 

 pleted skinning out the Kid's two stag heads, and the 

 curing of the skins fell to the writer's lot, they were 

 attended to during the afternoon. 



Here it might be well to state that the skinning 

 out of the head of one of these great deer is quite a 

 task, and great care and judgment must be exercised, 



