106 STAG-HUNTING. 



the punishment of delinquents among the Colo- 

 nists,, but afford that security in their habita- 

 tions, which would stimulate them to make 

 improvements, and to a more active industry 

 upon the soil, while it would have the best 

 effect upon the minds of the Indians at large. 



Nov. 4. — A party of hunters have just re- 

 turned, bringing in some venison of the red 

 deer, or stag, which is sometimes killed at the 

 distance of about ten or twelve miles from the 

 Colony. It is astonishing with what keenness 

 of observation they pursue these animals : their 

 eye is so very acute, that they will often discern 

 a path, and trace the deer over the rocks and 

 the withered leaves, which an European passes 

 without noticing, or being at all aware, that any 

 human being or game have directed their 

 course before him. They distinguish the car- 

 dinal points by the terms, sun-rise, sun-set, cold 

 country, and warm country; and reach any 

 destined point over the most extensive plains 

 with great accuracy, or travel through the 

 thickest woods with certainty, when they have 

 nothing to direct them but the moss that grows 

 on the north side of the trunks of the trees, and 

 their tops bending towards the rising sun. 



The 18th. The attendance on divine worship 

 is much improved on the Sabbath , from the 



