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one dog will rrjake a whole herd of them take to 

 the gallop. He has a very delicate and quick fcent, 

 and in order to approach him without being per- 

 ceived, near enough to moot him, you mud take 

 care not to have the wind of him. But when he is 

 wounded he grows furious and will turn upon the 

 hunters. He is equally dangerous when the cow buf- 

 falo has young newly brought forth. His flefh is 

 good, but that of the female only is eaten, that of 

 the male being too hard and tough. As to the 

 hide, there is none better in the known world ; it 

 is eafily dreffed, and though exceeding flrong, be- 

 comes as fupple and foft as the bed fhamois leather. 

 The Indians make bucklers of it, which are very 

 light, and which a mufket-ball will hardly pierce. 



There is another fort of buffalo found in the 

 neighbourhood of Hudfon's-Bay, the hide and wool 

 of which are equally valuable with thofe of the 

 fort; now mentioned. The following is what the 

 Sieur Jeremie fays of it. " Fifteen leagues from 

 Danes-River, you find the Sea- wolf- River, there 

 being in fact great numbers of thofe animals in it. 

 Between thofe two rivers, are a kind . of buffaloes, 

 calied by us Boeufs mafques, or mufk-buffaloes, from 

 their having fo flrong a fcent of mufk, that, at a 

 certain feafon, it is impoffible to eat them. Thefe 

 animals have a very fine wool, it is longer than that 

 of the Barbary iheep. I had fome of it brought 

 over to France in 1708, of which I caufed (lock- 

 ings to be made for me, which were finer than filk 

 (lockings. 3 ' Thefe buffaloes, though fmaller than 

 ours, have, however, much longer and thicker 

 horns ; their roots join on the crown of their heads* 

 and' reach down by their eyes aimoft as low as the 

 throat •, the end afterwards bends upwards, form- 

 ing a fort of crefcent. Some of thefe are fo thick 3 



that" 



