PLATE CCXXII. 



We may readily conceive that the capture of ihefe birds is an objc6t 

 of the utmoft confequence to the Canadians, when we are informed 

 that they diftinguiih the period of their firft arrival in fpring by the 

 name of Goojc month ; and that they purpofely prepare for that feafon 

 rows of huts niade of boughs, at the diftance of a muiket fliot from 

 each other, in thofe fituations where the flights of geefo are expe6led 

 to pafs. Here the Indians he in ambufti, and as the geefe fly over 

 they mimic their noife fo well as to entice the geefe within the reach 

 of gunftiot, where each of the Indians being armed with two guns, 

 fire both with all poflible expedition, and they are thus enabled to kill 

 a confiderable number of them ; forae good maikfmen it is aflerted 

 have, in this manner, killed two hundred in one day. The Thdians call 

 them Jpiftifkijh. 



