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tliey could pass those obslruetions, and proceed 

 to the Southern parts of the ishind, to which they 

 always resort in great luunbers, at the approach 

 of AVinter. Thev iiud there many extensive tracts 

 of hind destitute of wood, and covered with plenty 

 of Reindeer Lichen,^ Empetrum Nigrum,- and 

 other herbage; and which the want of trees keeps 

 free from snow, by the wind drifting it off, from 

 all such places as are exposed to its force. The 

 Northern parts of the island are in general so well 

 covered with timber, where the snow never drifts, 

 that the herbage is buried too deep for them: yet 

 there are some small spots of open ground in those 

 parts, where a few herds of deer find subsistence 

 everv Winter. At certain intervals the Indians 

 make stands, from whence they shoot the deer 

 with their arrows, as they pass along under the 

 fence: some of those I observed were erected in 

 large spreading trees, and others were raised be- 

 hind the fence. 



The other kind of fence is always built on the 

 North side of the river, and is so constructed, tliat 

 a herd of deer having once entered, it is almost 

 impossible for one of them to escape. From their 

 house, which is alwavs situated bv the side of the 

 river, they erect two high, and very sti-ong fences, 

 parallel to each other, forming a iian-ow lane of 

 some length, and stretching into the country. 

 From the farther end of eadi, they extend two 

 v('i'\- lonu: wing-fences, the extrenn'ties of wln'ch 



^ CUuUinin rnrKjifcrina . Cartwrinht is rnrrort in criirmn tliis ;i Urhen 

 iinfl not (I moHS. 

 » This ifl the scientific imrno Htill used for tlx- crow-berry or curlew-berry. 



