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in all the luxuries of the country. The chafe rouzes their appetites ; 
they are perpetually eating, and will even rife to obey, at midnight, 
the calls of hunger. Their viands are exquifite. Venifon boiled 
with red peafe ; turkies barbecued and eaten with bears fat; fawns 
cut out of the does belly, and boiled in the native bag; fifh, and 
crayfifh, taken in the next ftream; dried peaches, and other fruits, 
form the chief of their good living *. Much of this food is carmina- 
tive: they give loofe to the effects, and (reverfe' to the cuftom of 
the delicate 4rads +) laugh moft heartily on the occafion f. 
They bring along with them their wives and miftreffes: not that 
they pay any great refpect to the fair. They make (like the Cath- 
wefians) errant pack-horfes of them, loading them with provifions, 
or the fkins of the chafe; or making them provide fire-wood. Love 
is not the paffion of a Savage, at left it is as brief with them as with 
the animals they purfue. 
Mexican Roe? Hift. Quad. N° 52.—Smellie, iv. 136. 
EER. With horns near nine inches long, meafuring by the 
curvature ; and near nine inches between tip and tip, and two 
inches diftant between the bafes. About an inch and a half from the 
- bottom is one fharp erect fnag. This, and the lower parts of the 
horns, are very rough, ftrong, and fcabrous. ‘The upper parts bend 
forwards over the bafes; are fmooth, flatted, and broad, dividing 
into three fharp fnags. Color of the hair like the European Roe; but 
while young are rayed with white. In fize fomewhat fuperior to the 
~ European Roe. 
Inhabits Mexico || ; probably extends to the interior north-weftern 
parts of America, and may prove the Scenoontung or Squinaton, defcribed 
as being lefs than a Buck and larger than a Roe, but very like it, 
and of an elegant form §. - ; 
* Lawfon, 207. + D?’ Arvieux's travels, 147. t Law/on, 207. 
Hf. 
“| Hernander. § Dobbs’s Hudfon’s Bay, 24. 
