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acquainted with the proper places for finding 

 Water-foul, Deer, and other fallow Beads. The 

 firft Poft we took up was upon the fide of a Marfh or 

 Fen of four or five Leagues in Circumference; and 

 after we had fitted up our Hutts, the Savages made 

 Hutts upon the Water in feveral places. Thefe Wa- 

 ter-Hutts are made of the branches and leaves of 

 Trees, and contain three or four Men : For a Decoy 

 they have the skins of Geefe, Buftards, and Ducks, 

 dry'd and ftufPd with Hay, the two feet being made 

 faft with two Nails to a finall piece of a light plank, 

 which floats round the Hurt. This place being fre- 

 quented by wonderful numbers of Geefe, Ducks, 

 Buftards, Teals, and an infinity of other Fowl un- * 

 known to the Europeans; when thefe Fowls fee the 

 fltuff'd Skins fwimming with the Heads gredied, as if 

 they were alive, they repair to the fame place, and 

 fo give the Savages an opportunity of fliooting 'em, 

 either flying, or upon the Water ; after which the 

 Savages get into their Canows and gather 'em up. 

 They have likewife a way of catching em with 

 Nets, ftretch'd upon the furface of the Water at the 

 Entries of the Rivers. In a word, we eat nothing 

 but Water- fowl for fifteen Days j after which we 

 refolv'd to declare War againft the Turtle-Doves, 

 which are fo numerous in Canada , that the Bifliop 

 has been forc'd to excommunicate 3 cm oftner than * 

 once, upon the account pf the Damage they do 

 to the Produd of the Earth, With that view, we 

 xmbarqued and made towards a Meadow, in the 

 Neighbourhood of which, the Trees were cover'd 

 with that fort of Fowl, more than with Leaves: For 

 juft then 'twas the feafon in which they retire from 

 the North Countries, and repair to the Southern 

 Climates; and one would have thought, that all 

 the Turtle-Doves upon Earth tiad chofe to pafs thro 5 

 this place. For the eighteen or twenty days that 

 we ftay'd there, I firmly believe that a thoufand 



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