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Maftiffs; the other with a flat Foot, thefe are liker Grey- 

 hounds, and are called Deer Wolfs, because they are 

 accuftomed to prey upon Deer. A Wolf will eat a Wolf 

 new dead, and fo do Bears as I fuppofe, for their dead 

 Carkafes are never found, neither by the Indian nor 

 Englifh. They go a clicketing twelve days, and have as 

 many Whelps at a Litter as a Bitch. The Indian Dog 1 is 

 a Creature begotten 'twixt a Wolf and a Fox, which the 

 Indians lighting upon, bring up to hunt the Deer with. 

 The Wolf is very numerous, and go in companies, fome- 

 times ten, twenty, more or fewer, and fo cunning, that 

 feldome any are kill'd with Guns or Traps; but of late 

 they have invented a way to deftroy them, by binding four - 

 Maycril Hooks a crofs with a brown thread, and then 

 wrapping fome Wool about them, they dip them in melted 

 Tallow till it be as round and as big as an Egg; thefe 

 (when any Beaft hath been kill'd by the Wolves) they 

 fcatter by the dead Carkafe, after they have beaten off the 

 Wolves ; about Midnight the Wolves are fure to return 

 again to the place where they left the flaughtered Beaft, 

 and the (16) firft thing they venture upon will be thefe 

 balls of fat. 



but it is no such matter; for they care no more for an ordinary mastiff than an 

 ordinary mastiff cares for a cur. Many good dogs have been spoiled by 

 them. . . . There is little hope of their utter destruction ; the country being so 

 spacious, and they so numerous, travelling in the swamps by kennels : sometimes 

 ten or twelve are of a company. ... In a word, they be the greatest inconven- 

 iency the country hath." — Neiv-England 's Prospefi, I. c. 



1 Spoken of again in the Voyages, pp. 94 and 193 ; and in Hubbard, Hist. 

 N. England, p. 25. Josselyn's may be compared with Lewis and Clark's notice of 

 the Indian dog (Travels, vol. ii. p. 165). 



