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one redoubt, fometimes in another, and changing 

 her drefs from time to time, and always firing very 

 feafonably, on feeing the Iraquoife approach the 

 bread- work, thefe Indians thought there were many 

 men in the garrrfon, and when the chevalier de Cri- 

 fafy, informed by the firing of the cannon, appear- 

 ed to fuccour the place, the men were already de- 

 camped. 



^ Let us now return to our hunting; that of the 

 elk would be no lefs advantagious to us at this day 

 than that of the beaver, had our predeceiibrs in the 

 colony paid due attention toxhe profits which might 

 have been made by it, and had they not almoft en- 

 tirely dedroyed the whole fpecies, at lead in fuel} 

 places as are within our reach. 



What they call here the orignal, is the fame 

 with the animal, which in Germany, Poland, and 

 Ruflia, is called the elk, or the great bead. This 

 animal in this country is of the fize of a horfe, or 

 mule of the country of Auvergne ; this has a broad 

 crupper, the tail but a finger's length, the hough 

 extremely high, with the feet and legs of a dag ; 

 the neck, withers, and upper part or the hough 

 are covered with long hair ; the head is above two 

 feet long, which he dretches forward, and which 

 gives the animal a very aukward appearance ; his 

 muzzle is thick, and bending on the upper- part, 

 like that of a camel ; and his nodrils are fo wide, 

 that one may with eafe thrud half his arm into 

 them laftly, his antlers are full as long as thofe of 

 a dag, and are much more fpreading-, they are branch- 

 ing and flat like thofe of a doe, and are renewed 

 - every year • but I do not know whether they re- 

 ceive an increafe which denotes the age of the ani- 

 mal. 



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