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the dividing the prey. Another wile of the carca- 

 jou, in order to feize his prey is to climb upon a 

 tree, where couched along fome projecting branch, 

 he waits till an elk paries, and leaps upon him, the 

 moment he fees him within his reach. There are, 

 many perfons, Madam, who have taken it into 

 their heads to imagine, that the accounts of Cana- 

 da, make the Indians more terrible people than they 

 really are. They are, however, men. But under 

 what climate can we find brute animals, indued 

 with fo ftrong an inftincl, and fo forcibly inclined 

 to induftry, as the fox, the beaver, and the car- 

 cajou. 



The ftag in Canada is abfolutely the fame with 

 ours in France, though, perhaps> generally fome- 

 what bigger. It does not appear that the Indians 

 give them much dilturbance ; at leaft, I do not 

 find they make war upon him in form and with 

 much preparation. It is quite different with refpecl 

 to the caribou, . an animal differing in nothing from 

 the raindeer, except in the colour of its hair, 

 which is brown a little inclining to red, This crea- 

 ture is not quite lb tall as the elk, and has more 

 of the afs or mule in its fhape, and is at lead 

 equal in fpeed with the deer. Some years fince, 

 one of them was feen on Cape Diamond, above 

 Quebec ; he probably was rlying before fome hun- 

 ters, but immediately perceived he was in no place 

 of fafety, and made icarce any more than one leap 

 from thence into the river. A wild goat on the 

 alps could hardly have done more. lie afterwards 

 fwam crofs the river with the fame celerity, but 

 was very little the better for having fo done. Some 

 Canadians who were going out again ft an enemy, 

 and lay encamped at point Levi, having perceived 

 him, watched his landing, and (hot him. The 



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