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a great while. But the Indians are ft ill better coup* 

 fers than he. It is affirmed that hefalis down upon 

 his knees to drink, eat and deep, and that he has 

 a bone in ( his heart, which being reduced to pow- 

 der, and taken in broth, facilitates delivery, and 

 fofcens the pains of child bearing. 



The mod northern nations of Canada have a 

 way of hunting this animal, very fimple and free 

 from danger. The 'hunters divide into two bands, 

 one embarks on board canoes, which canoes keep 

 at a fmall difiance from each other, forming a pretty 

 large femicircle, the two ends of which reach the 

 more. The other body, which remains afhore, 

 perform pretty much the fame thing, and at fir ft 

 furround a lame track of ground. Then the huntf- 

 men let loofe their dogs, and raife all the elks with- 

 in the bounds of this femicircle, and drive them 

 into the river or lake, which they no fooner enter 

 than they are fired upon from ail the canoes, and 

 not a (hot miffes, fo that rarely any one efcapes. 



Champlain mentions another way of hunting, 

 not only the elk, but alfo the deer and caribou, 

 which has fome reiernhlance to this. They fur- 

 round a fpace of ground with pods, interwoven 

 /with ' branches of trees, leaving a pretty narrow 

 opening, where they place nets made of thongs of 

 raw hides. I his fpace is of a^ triangular form, and 

 from the angle in which the entry is, they form ano- 

 ther, but much larger triangle. Thus the two en- 

 clofures communicate with each other at the two an- 

 gles. The two fides of the fecond triangle are alfo 

 inclofrd with pods, interwoven in the fame man- 

 ner, and the hunters drawn up in one line form 

 the bads of it. i hey then advance, keeping the 

 line entire, railing prodigious cries, and ft ri king 



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