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Fur. 
WOLVEREN E. 
huntfinen deep in the fnow, which it will carry away to other places 
to devour. About the Lena it will attack horfes, on whofe backs 
are often feen the marks of its teeth and claws. By a wonderful {a- 
gacity it will afcend a tree, and fling from the boughs a fpecies of 
mofs which Elks and Reins are very fond of; and when thofe ani- 
mals come beneath to feed on it, will fall on them and deftroy them: 
or, like the Lynx, it afcends to the boughs of trees, and falls on the 
Deer which cafually pafs beneath, and adheres till they fall down 
with fatigue. It is a great enemy to the Beaver *, and is on that ac- 
count fometimes called the Beaver-eater. It watches at the mouth of 
their holes, and catches them as they come out. Itfearches the traps 
laid for taking other beafts, and devours thofe which it finds taken. 
It breaks into the magazines of the natives, and robs them of the pro- 
vifions; whether they are covered with logs, brufhwood, and built 
high between two or three ftanding trees f. 
It lodges in clefts of rocks, or in hollows of trees, and in Sibiria 
often in the deferted holes of Badgers; never digging its own den, 
nor having any certain habitation. It breeds once a year, bringing 
from two to four at a litter {. Its fur is much ufed for muffs. Not- 
withftanding its great fiercenefs when wounded, or firft feizure, it is 
capable of being made very tame |. 
The fkins are frequently brought from Hud/on’s Bay, and com- 
monly ufed for muffs. In Siéiria the fkin is moft valued which is 
black, and has left of the ferruginous band. Thefe are chiefly 
found in the mountanous forefts of Fakut/k, and ufed by the natives 
to adorn their caps. Few of the Sidirian fkins are fent into Rufia, 
but are chiefly fold to the Mongals and Chine/e. 
The relations of the exceffive gluttony of this animal; that it eats 
till it is ready to burft, and that it is obliged to unload itfelf by 
fqueezing its body between two trees; are totally fabulous: like 
other animals, they eat till they are fatisfied, and then leave off §. 
* Dobbs, 40. + Mr. Graham. t The fame. || Edw. ii. 103. 
§ Hip, Kamifca, 335« 
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