56 £tcto=i£nglant)S Earitteg. 



their Horns grow backwards a long their backs to their 

 rumps, and turn again a handful beyond their Nofe, hav- 

 ing another Horn in the middle of their Forehead, about 

 half a yard long, very ftraight, but [21] wreathed like an 

 Unicorns Horn, of a brown jettie colour, and very 

 fmooth: The Creature is no where to be found, but upon 

 Cape Sable in the French Quarters, and there too very 

 rarely, they being not numerous ; fome few of their Skins 

 and their ftreight Horns are (but very fparingly) brought 

 to the Englifli. 



«5 



The Fox} 



The Fox, "which differeth not much from ours, but are 

 fomewhat lefs ; a black Fox Skin heretofore was wont to 



distinctness, one, or possibly two, others, — the maurouse and the maccarib. 

 The maurouse — of which only the Voyages make mention — "is somewhat like 

 a moose ; but his horns are but small, and himself about the size of a stag. These 

 are the deer that the flat-footed wolves hunt after." — Voyages, p. 91. This is to 

 be compared with the mauroos, rendered " cerf," of Rasles' Didt., /. c, p. 3S2 ; 

 and, in such connection, is hardly referable to other than the caribou, or rein- 

 deer, — a well-known inhabitant of the north-eastern parts of New England, and 

 likely, therefore, to have come to the knowledge of our author; while there seems 

 to be no testimony to its ever having occurred in Massachusetts and southward, 

 where Wood and Williams made their observations. The last, or the maccarib, 

 caribo, or pohano, of Josselyn, is described above; and, in the Voj'ages (p. 91), 

 he only repeats that it " is not found, that ever I heard yet, but upon Cape Sable, 

 near to the French plantations." The " round" hoofs of the maccarib might lead 

 us to take this for the caribou of Maine; the round track of which differs much 

 from that of the fallow-deer. But the former is more likely to have been the 

 American elk ; so rare, it should seem, where it occurred, when our author wrote, 

 and so little known in the New-England settlements, that his fancy, fed by dark- 

 ling hearsay, could deck it with the honors of the "unicorn." 



1 "There are two or three kinds of them, — one a great yellow fox; another 

 grey, who will climb up into trees. The black fox is of much esteem." — Josse- 



