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shore and killed them with a sword blade attached to a stick like a 

 half -pike. Similar drives took place on the islands where there were 

 large quantities of game (C 60-61). 



On another deer hunt, 25 Indians built 2 or 3 houses out of pieces 

 of wood fitted together, chinked with moss, and covered with bark. 

 Then they built a triangular enclosure, closed on 2 sides and open on 

 1, of large wooden stakes joined closely together. The enclosure was 

 from 8 to 9 feet high and each of the sides was nearly 1,500 paces 

 long. At the end of this triangle was a small enclosure that narrowed 

 the farther it went and was covered in part with branches. It had 

 only one opening 5 feet wide which the deer were to enter. This struc- 

 ture took less than 10 days to build. In the meanwhile, some Indians 

 had gone to catch trout and pike of great size. After the enclosure 

 was ready, the hunters went to the woods a half -hour before daybreak. 

 From there, about a half-league from the enclosure and separated 

 from each other by some 80 paces, the men marched slowly toward 

 the enclosure, striking 2 sticks together, and driving the deer before 

 them. When they reached the end of the triangle, they began to shout 

 and imitate wolves. The deer, frightened by this noise, entered the 

 small enclosure where they were easily captured. This procedure 

 was repeated every 2 days. In 38 days, the Indians captured 120 

 deer. They kept the fat, which they used as the French did butter, 

 for the winter and took home some meat for their feasts. The trip 

 back was made after the frost when travel was easier over this very 

 marshy country (C 82-85). 



A bear, after having been captured, might be fattened for 2 or 3 

 years and then killed for a feast (C 130). The bear was shut up in 

 the middle of the house in a little round enclosure made of stakes 

 driven into the ground. He was given the remains of sagamite to eat 

 (S 220). Perhaps other wild animals also were kept: one Indian 

 raised in his house a bustard which the Jesuits bought for a deer skin 

 (JE,13:97). 



Other animals were taken. Rabbits were snared (S 223). Cranes 

 [great blue heron] and geese were hunted with a bow and arrow or 

 caught in snares (S 220-221). Crows were not eaten (S 221) but 

 eagles were (S 259). Wild turkeys were found in some regions, es- 

 pecially near the Tobacco League (S 220). Turtles were eaten after 

 they were cooked alive in the hot ashes or boiled with their flippers 

 sticking up (8235,251). 2 



Dogs were eaten as meat (JE 7: 223; C 129; S 226) and for this 

 purpose were raised as sheep were in France (JR 7: 223; cf. S 226). 



2 For kinds of birds and animals taken, see Waugh 1916 : 134-136. 



