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ing supplies is a matter of consideration, considers the 

 recovery of his bullets a point of such importance that 

 he invariably cuts them out of the carcase, to be 

 remelted in his wooden ladle for future service. 



Valuable as are skins of the Moose and Caribou, 

 those of the Deer are still more esteemed on account 

 of their greater softness and pliability, as well as their 

 property of better resisting injury from wet. 



AMERICAN DEEB. 



