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ACCOUNT OF ANIMALS. 



leather is very suitable for leggins and shirts for 

 the Natives, during the summer months. The 

 males have horns, resembling those of the deer, 

 excepting that they are smaller. 



The carcajou or wolverine, in shape and the 

 colour of the hair, greatly resembles the skunk : 

 but it is nearly twice as large. The hair of the 

 carcajou is about the same length as that of a 

 bear : and its colour is black, excepting a nar- 

 row strip of white, on the rump. The tail is 

 about six inches long, and is very bushy. This 

 animal is remarkably strong built, for its size : 

 and is extremely voracious. He feeds on dead 

 fish, which he finds along the shores of the riv- 

 ers* and lakes : and on mice, hares, &c. He is 

 often found about the places where human be- 

 ings have been interred ; and, if they have not 

 been buried deep in the earth, he will take them 

 up, and feed on their carcases. On this account, 

 the Natives never feed on the flesh of this ani- 

 mal, though it has an excellent flavour. When 

 he falls upon a large animal, that has been kill- 

 ed and cut up and left by a hunter, he will, * 

 within a very short time, remove the whole of 

 it to a considerable distance, and strive to hide 

 it under grass, or the branches of trees. 



The skunk differs. not at all from the same ani- 

 mal, as it is found in most parts of the United States : 

 and it is too well known to need a description. 



