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him with their horns, or trample him to death beneath their great 
hoofs. 
Their flefh is extremely {weet and nourifhing. The Indians fay, 
that they can travel three times as far after a meal of Moofe, as after 
any other animal food. The tongues are excellent, but the nofe is 
perfect marrow, and efteemed the greateft delicacy in all Canada. 
The fkin makes excellent buff; is ftrong, foft, and light. The 
Indians drefs the hide, and, after foaking it for fome time, ftretch and 
render it fupple by a lather of the brains in hot water. They not 
only make their fnow-fhoes of the fkin, but after a chafe form the 
canoes with it: they few it neatly together, cover the feams with 
an unctuous earth, and embark in them with their fpoils to return 
home *. 
The hair on the neck, withers, and hams of a full-grown Elk is of 
much ufe in making mattraffes and faddles; being by its great 
length well adapted for thofe purpofes. 
The palmated parts of the horns are farther excavated by the fa- 
vages, and converted into ladles, which will hold a pint. 
It is not ftrange that fo ufeful an animal fhould be a principal ob- 
ject of chafe. The favages perform it in different ways. ‘The firft, 
and the more fimple, is before the lakes or rivers are frozen. Mul- 
titudes affemble in their canoes, and form with them a vaft crefcent, 
each horn touching the fhore. Another party perform their fhare of 
the chafe among the woods; they furround an extenfive tract, let 
loofe their dogs, and prefs towards the water with loud cries. The 
animals, alarmed with the noife, fly before the hunters, and plunge 
into the lake, where they are killed by the perfons in the canoes, 
prepared for their reception, with lances or clubs +. 
The other method is more artful. The favages inclofe a large 
fpace with ftakes hedged with branches of trees, forming two fides 
* La Hentan, i. 59. + Charlevoix, v. 188. 
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