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situations. Water fowl are abundant, and were frequently 

 shot. Among the number brought in from the different canoes, 

 in the evenings, were the duck and mallard, wood-duck, and 

 saw-bill. One of the latter species, had a unio firmly attached 

 to its lower mandible, having been in the act of opening it when 

 shot. 



