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againft fomething which refounds greatly. The 

 game thus rouled, and being able to efcape by none 

 of the fides, can only fly into the other enclofure, 

 where feveral are taken at theif firft entering by the 

 neck or horns. They make great efforts to difen- 

 tangie themfeives, and fometimes carry away or 

 break the thongs. They alfo fometimes ftrangle 

 themfeives, or at lead give the hunt I men time to 

 difpatch them at leifure. Even thofe that efcape 

 are not a whit advanced, but find themfeives en- / 

 clofed in a fpace too narrow to be able to fhun the 

 arrows which are fhot at them from all hands. 



The elk has other enemies befid'es the Indians, 

 and who carry on full as cruel a war againft him. 

 The mo ft terrible of all thefe is the Carcajou or 

 Quincajou, a kind of cat, with a tail fo long that 

 he twifts it feveral times round his body, and with 

 a fkin of a brownifh red. As foon as this hunter 

 comes up with the elk, he leaps upon him, and faf- 

 tens upon his neck, about which he twifts his long 

 tail, and then cuts his jugular. The elk has no 

 means of fhunning this difafter, but by flying to 

 the water the moment he is feized by this danger- 

 ous enemy. The carcajou, who cannot endure the 

 water, quits his hold immediately ; but, if them^ 

 ter happen to be at too great a diftance, he wili 

 deftroy the elk before he reaches it. This hunter 

 too as he does not pofTefs the faculty of fmeiling 

 with the greater!: acutenefs, carries three foxes a 

 hunting with him, which he fends on the difcovery. 

 The moment they have got fcent of an elk, two 

 of them place themfeives by his fide, and the third 

 takes poft behind him ; and ail three manage mat- 

 ters fo well, by harafring the prey, that they cpm- 

 pehhim to go to the place where they have left the 

 carcajou, with whom they afterwards fettle about 



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