as the water rifeth or falleth) I fay, their abode being 

 found, they make a breach therein, wherein is put a lit- 

 tle dog, which the Beaver perceiving, flies inftantly to 

 the end of her cave, and there defendeth her felf with 

 her teeth, till all her building be raifed, and fhe laid open 

 to her enennies, who kill her with inftrunnents for that 

 purpofe. Thefe dogs for the Beaver are the fame which 

 hunt Otters. 



They cannot dive long time under water, but muft 

 put up their heads for breaths which being feen by 

 thofe who are hunting them, they kill them with gun- 

 (hot or 0«er-fpears : His nature is, if he hear any noife, 

 to put up his head above water, whereby he is difco- 

 vered, and fo lofeth life. Thofe skins are beft which 

 are blackeft. 



Of the Elk. 



His beaft is twice as big as a Hart^ whofe upper- 

 lip is fo great, and hangeih over the nether fo 

 far, that he cannot eat going forward > but as he eat- 

 eth he goeth backward, and fo gathereth up his fufte- 

 nance. 



His mane is divers both on the top of his neck, and 

 underneath his throat , which buncheth like a beard, 

 or curled lock of hair •, his neck is very ftiort, difpro- 

 portionable to his body. 



He hath two very large horns bending towards 

 the back in a plain edge, and the fpircs ftand forward 

 to. the face : both males and females have them j they 

 are folid at the root and round, but afterwards bran- 

 ched i they are broader than a Hart\ and are very 

 heavy, being not above two foot long > and thefe 



horns 



