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beavers, elks*, rein-deerf,woIf-lynxest, and 

 martens. They fometimes get martens 

 ikins from the fouth, but they are red, and 

 good for little. Ptchou dii Nord is perhaps 

 the animal which x\\tEnglifi, rear UuJfoii^ 

 bay, call the wolverene. To the northern 

 furs belong the bears, which are but few, 

 and foxes, which are not very numerous, 

 and generally black 1 and feveral oiher 

 fkins. 



The fliins of the fomhern parts are 

 chiefly taken from the following animals : 

 wild cattle, (lags, roebucks, otters, Pichoux 

 du Slid, of which V .Charlevoix makes men- 

 tion §, and are probably a fpecies of cat- 

 lynx, or perhaps a kind of panther; foxes 

 of various kinds, raccoons, cat-lynxes, and 

 feveral others. 



It is inconceivable what harddiips the 

 people in Canada mull; undergo on their 

 journies. Sometimes they mufl: carry their 

 goods a great way by land ; frequently they 

 are abufed by the Indianst and fometimes 

 they are killed by them. They often fuffcr 

 hunger, thirft, heat, and cold, and are bit 

 by gnats, and expofed to the bites of poi- 



* Orignacs. 



f Cariboux. 



X Loiip cerviers. 



§ In his Hift. de la Nouv. France, Tom. V. p. 15 S. 



S 2 fonous 



