20 Mi OO SE. 
of a triangle: the bottom opens into a fecond enclofure, com- 
pletely triangular. At the opening are hung numbers of fnares, 
made of flips of raw hides. The Indians, as before, affemble in great 
troops, and with all kinds of noifes drive into the firft enclofure not 
only the Moofes, but the other {pecies of Deer which abound in that 
country: fome, in forcing their way into the fartheft triangle, are 
caught in the fnares by the neck or horns; and thofe which efcape 
the fnares, and pafs the little opening, find their fate from the arrows 
of the hunters, dire¢éted at them from all quarters *. { 
They are often killed with the gun. When they are firft unhar- 
boured, they fquat with their hind parts and make water, at which 
inftant the fportfman fires ; if he miffes, the Moofe fets off in a moft 
rapid trot, making, like the Rein-deer, a prodigious rattling with its 
hoofs, and will run for twenty or thirty miles before it comes to bay 
or takes the water. But the ufual time for this diverfion is the win- 
ter. The hunters avoid entering on the chafe till the fun is ftrong 
enough to melt the frozen cruft with which the fnow is covered, 
otherwife the animal can run over the firm furface: they wait till 
it becomes foft enough to impede the flight of the Moofe; which 
finks up to the fhoulders, flounders, and gets on with great difficulty.. 
The fportfman purfues at his eafe on his broad rackets, or fnow-fhoes;,. 
and makes a ready prey of the diftreffed animals, 
As weak againft the mountain heaps.they pufh 
Their beating breaft in vain, and piteous bray, 
He lays them quivering on th’ enfanguin’d fnows,. 
And with loud fhonts rejoicing bears them home. 
= THOMPSON. 
SuPeRsTITIONS The opinion of this animal’s being fubjeét to the epilepfy feems to 
"aia MoGiee ° have been univerfal, as well as the cure it finds by feratching its ear 
with the hind hoof till it draws blood. That hoof has been ufed in 
Indian medicine for the falling-ficknefs; they apply it to the heart of 
* Charlevoix, and La Hontan, i, 65. 
the 
