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are from one mile to two, or more, asmicler/ The 

 deer travel in small companies, few of them ex- 

 ceeding a dozen head, and when they meet with 

 these hawk, or wing-fences, they walk along them, 

 until they are insensibly drawn into the pound, 

 as partridge are into a tunnel net. The women 

 prevent them from returning, and they are all 

 killed with great ease by the men. 



Besides the whigwhams (which are constructed 

 with slight poles, in the form of a cone, about six 

 or seven feet in diameter at the base, eight or nine 

 in height, and covered with birch rinds, or skins, 

 and often with sails which they contrive to steal 

 from the fishing-rooms) we also observed several 

 houses substantially built of timber. They were 

 about ten or twelve feet square; some of the sides 

 were constructed with squared timber, laid hori- 

 zontally upon each other, with moss between; 

 others were built of upright logs standing very 

 open, with a slight frame of lattice-work on the 

 inside; upon the latter we observed deer's hair, 

 from which we concluded they made use of the 

 skins of those animals to keep out the weather. 

 The roofs were low pyramids, with a hole 

 in the top for the emission of smoke; the 

 fire was in the centre, and the inhabitants sleep 

 round it. 



' Carmack (or Cormack) in his descent of the River of Exploits in 1827, 

 previously referred to in a note, says: " But what arrests the attention 

 most, in gliding down the stream, is the extent of the Indian fences to 

 entrap deer. They extend from the lake downwards, continuous on the 

 banks of the river, at least thirty miles, with openings here and there, 

 for the animals to go through, and swim across the river." 



