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whom maternal cares had evidently worn heavily 

 during the summer. 



This mode of taking deer is very novel and strange. 

 The animal is evidently fascinated or bewildered. It 

 does not appear to be frightened, but as if over- 

 whelmed with amazement, or under the influence of 

 some spell. It is not sufficiently master of the situa- 

 tion to be sensible to fear, or to think of escape by 

 flight ; and the experiment, to be successful, must be 

 done quickly, before the first feeling of bewilderment 

 passes. 



Witnessing the spectacle from the shore, I can con- 

 ceive of nothing more sudden or astounding. "You 

 see no movement and hear no noise, but the light 

 grows upon you, and stares and stares like a huge 

 eye from the infernal regions. 



According to the guide, when a deer has been 

 played upon in this manner and escaped, he is not to 

 be fooled a second time. Mounting the shore, he 

 gives a long signal snort, which alarms every animal 

 within hearing, and dashes away. 



The sequel to the deer-shooting was a little sharp 

 practice with a revolver upon a rabbit, or properly a 

 hare, which was so taken with the spectacle of the 

 camp-fire, and the sleeping figures lying about, that it 

 ventured quite up in our midst ; but while testing the 

 quality of some condensed milk that sat uncovered at 

 the foot of a large tree, poor Lepus had his spine in 

 jured by a bullet. 



