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The ufes of thefe animals are various. Powder-flafks are made of 
their horns. The fkins are very valuable; in old times the Indians 
made of them the beft targets*. When drefied, they form an excellent 
buff; the Jzdians drefs them with the hair on, and cloath themfelves 
with them ; the Europeans of Lowifiana ufe them for blankets, and 
find them light, warm, and foft. The flefh isa confiderable article of 
food, and the bunch on the back is efteemed a very great delicacy. 
The Bulls become exceffively fat, and yield great quantity of tallow, 
a hundred and fifty pounds weight has been got from a fingle beaft +, 
which forms a confiderable matter of commerce. Thefe over-fed 
animals ufually become the prey of Wolves ; for, by reafon of their 
great unwieldinefs, they cannot keep up with the herd. 
The Indians, by a very bad policy, prefer the flefh of the Cows; 
which in time will deftroy the fpecies: they complain of the rank- 
nefs of that of the Bulls; but Dz Pratz thinks the laft much more 
tender, and that the ranknefs might be prevented, by cutting off the 
tefticles as foon as the beaft is killed. 
The hair or wool is fpun into cloth, gloves, ftockings, and gar- 
ters, which are very ftrong, and look as well as thofe made of the 
beft fheeps wool ; Governor Pownall affures us, that the moft luxu- 
rious fabrick might be made of it~. The fleece of one of thefe 
animals has been found to weigh eight pounds. 
Their fagacity in defending themfelves againft the attacks of 
Wolves is admirable: when they fcent the approach of a drove of 
thofe ravenous creatures, the herd flings itfelf into the form ofa 
circle : the weakeft keep in the middle, the ftrongeft are ranged on 
the outfide, prefenting to the enemy an impenetrable front of horns : 
fhould they be taken by furprize, and have recourfe to flight, numbers 
of the fatteft or the weakeft are fure to perifh ||. 
* Purchas, ive 1550. + Du Pratz, $ Topog. Defer. N. Am. 8. 
{] Du Praiz, i, 298. 
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