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i\) violently as to Run him, or make him fly off; 

 and afterwards runs with a rapidity that pre- 

 vents all further attacks. The rofomack or glut- 

 ton, though not fo numerous, is a more dange- 

 rous enemy. This animal is frill more voraci- 

 ous, hut not fo nimble as the wolf. He purfues 

 not the rain-deer, but lies in wait for it conceal- 

 ed in a tree. As foon as the rain-deer comes 

 within his reach, he darts down upon it, fixes 

 upon its back with his claws ; and, tearing its 

 head or neck with his teeth, he never quits his 

 flation till he has cut the animal's throat. He 

 employs the fame artifices, and carries on the 

 fame war againfl the elk, which is ftill ftronger 

 than the rain-deer*. This rofomack or glutton 

 of the North is the fame animal with the carca- 



jou 



* There is another animal, of a grayifh brown colour, and 

 about the fize of a dog, -which carries on a bloody war a- 

 gair.ft the rain-deer. This animal, which the Swedes call 

 Jacrt, and the Latins Guto, conceals itfelf in the higheft trees, 

 hi order to furprife its prey. When he difcovers a rain-deer, 

 whether wild or domeftic, pairing under the tree where he is 

 watching, he darts down upon its back, and, fixing his claws 

 in the neck and tail, he tears and ftretches with fuch violence 

 as to break the animal's back, then (inks his muzzle into 

 its body, and drinks its blood. The {kin of the jacrt 

 is very fine and beautiful, and has even been compared to 



t of the fable; Oeuvres de Regnardy tern. I. /-. 154.-T 



The caribou runs upon the fnow almoft as nimbly as upon 

 the ground ; becaufe the broadnefs of its feet prevents it 

 f;cm linking. The caribou, like the orignal, travels thro 

 the forefts in winter, and is attacked in the fame manner by 

 the carcajou; Hi/}. deVAcad. des Scicr.cej, annJe 17 13, p- 14. 

 Note. The carcajou is the fame animal with the jaert or glut 'tat:. 



