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tain distance from each other, and frequently 

 make noises, resembling the human voice ; and 

 they appear to act in concert, as regularly as the 

 Indians themselves do, when they drive the buffa- 

 loes into their yards. 



The wolves know the effects of a discharge 

 of a musket ; and when a hunter fires his gun, at 

 a buffaloe or deer, in a few minutes, from ten to 

 twenty of them will rush to the spot whence the 

 report proceeded ; and, at some times, they are 

 so pinched with hunger, that while standing be- 

 side his game, it is with difficulty that the hunter 

 preserves it from being devoured by them. 



There are three sorts of foxes, which, howev- 

 er, differ only in their colour. The most common 

 are of a yellowish red, some are of a beautiful sil- 

 ver grey, and some in the more northern latitudes, 

 are almost black. The last, are by far the most 

 valuable. 



The Indians have several kinds of dogs. Those 

 which they make use of in hunting, are small, their 

 ears stand erect; and they are remarkable for 

 their fidelity to their masters. — They now have a 

 large breed among them, which were brought in- 

 to their country from Newfoundland, by the En- 

 glish, when they first established themselves on 

 Hudson's Bay ; and from that place they have been 

 spread into every part of the country, east of the 

 Rocky Mountain. They are used only as beasts 



