76 THE AMERICAN. BISONS. 



of the. buffalo have as yet been found in the Indian shell-mounds of the 

 Atlantic coast * while the bones of elk, deer, caribou, bear, and other large 

 mammals and birds occur with greater or less frequency at different locali- 

 ties.! 



large animals — nothing like the buffalo — in his several distinct enumerations of the " beasts." — Hak- 

 u-yt. Voyages, Vol. Ill, pp. 231-290. 



Sir Francis Koberaul, in his account of his voyage up the St. Lawrence in 1542, says of the Indians: 

 '• They feed also of Stagges, wild Buns. Bugles, Porkespynes, and store of other wild beastes." — Hak- 

 i.ivt. Vol. ID, p. 290. 



In Hariofs account of Virginia, written in 1587, he enumerates among the boasts. " Deere," " Conies," 

 " Saquenuckot, and Maquowoc, two kinds of small beasts, greater than Conies which are very good 

 meat," " Squirels " and " Beares," and adds : " I have the names of eight and twenty several] sorts of beasts, 

 ■which I have heard of to be here and there dispersed in the countrey, especially in the maine : of which 

 there are only twelve kinds that we have yet discovered, and of those that be good meat we know only 

 them before mentioned." — IlAKLUYT, Vol. Ill, p. 333. 



Iii the Report of Gosnold's Voyage (1602) to Northern Virginia are enumerated " Deere in great store, 

 very great and large: Beares, Luzernes, blacke Poxes, Beavers, Otters, Wilde-cats, very large and great, 



I) >.'s like Foxes, blacke and sharpe-nosed ; Conies." — Porchas, Pilgrims, Vol. IV. p. ifi53. 



Martin Pring, in the account of his voyage (made in 1603), speaks of the " Beasts " of Northern Vir- 

 ginia, as follows : "We saw here also sundry sorts of Beasts, as Stags, Deere, Beares. Wolves, Foxes. I.u- 



sernes, and Dogges with sharpe noses." Again, he says: "The Beasts Inn- are Stags, fallow Deere in 

 abundance, Beares, Wolves, Foxes, Lnsernes [Raccoons], and (some say) Tygres, Porcupines and Dogges 



with sharpe and long noses, wilb many other sorts of wild beasts, whose Cases and Furres being hereafter 



1 1 irehased by exchange may yeeld no small gaine to us." — Ptjrchas, Vol. IV, pp. 1G54, 1656. 



In James Rosier's account of a voyage made by Captain George Waymouth, in 1605, to Virginia, 

 we find, in his enumeration of tin- products of the country, the following: "Beassts. Deere red and 

 fallow, Beare, Wolfe, Beaver, Otter, Conie, Martems, Sables, Hogs, Porkespines, Polcats, Cats, wild 



e lik • other beasts the Savages signe unto us with homes and broad 



cares, which we take to !»• Olkes or Loshes." (Pi rchas, Vol IV. p. lfiGT.) The locality here referred 

 to more particularly was the month of the St. Lawrence River, Virginia at this time including tin' north- 

 ern portion of the Atlantic coast as far as it had been explored. 



Captain John Smith, in his Description of Virginia, published in 1606, Bays: "Of Beasts, the chiefe are 

 Deare, nothing differing from ours. In the Desarts, towards the heads of the Rivers, there are many, but 

 amongst tin 1 Rivers, few. There is a beast the] call Aroughcun, much like a Badger, but useth to live on 



t n as Squirrels doe. Their squirrels, some are mere as gnat as our smallest sorl of wilde Babbits, 



tome blackish or blacke and white, bnl the most air gray, a small beast thej have, thej call Assapaniek, 

 I. nt wee call them flying Squirrels, because spreading thier lc_'s. and so stretching the largeness of their 

 skinnes, that they have hern seen to Hie thirtie or fortie yards. An Opassam bath a head like a Swine, 



and a taile like a Rat, and is of tbr blgnesse of a ( 'at. Under her belly she hath a bag, wherein she lodg* 



eth, carrieth, and rackleth her young Mu , is s beast of the forme and nature of our water Rata, hut 



• I have been urored of thfa fact by the late Professor J. Wyman, and bj Mr. F. W Putnam, and 

 others who have made these prehistoric remains of the aborigines a special study. 



Ejajkenmcsddings, or Shell-heaps, in Maine and Massachn 

 Amur, Naturalist, Vol I. pp. 1*68. 



