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the Tail of a Beaver, all roafted ; and the fourth 

 contained a large quantity of Broth made of feve- 

 ral forts of Meat. For Drink they gave me a very 

 pleafant Liquor, which was nothing but a Syrrup 

 of Maple beat up with Water; but of this more 

 elfewhere. The Feaft lafted two Hours ; after which 

 1 increated one of the Grandees to fing for me ; for 

 to all the Ceremonies made ufe of among the Sa- 

 vages, 'tis cuftomar.y to hn ploy another to a<3: for 

 'em. I made this Grandee a Prefent of fome pie- 

 ces of Tobacco, in order to oblige him to ad: my 

 part till Night. Next day, and the day after, I 

 was obliged to go to the Feafts of the other two 

 Nations, who obferv'd the fame Formalities. Ths 

 moft curious thing I faw in the Villages, was tea 

 or twelve tame Beavers, that went and came like 

 Dogs from the Rivers to the Cottages, without ftrag-? 

 iing o«Jtof the Road. I ask'd the Savages if thefe 

 Animals could live out of the Water ; and receiv'd 

 this anfwer, that they could live afhoar as well as 

 Dogs, and that they had kept fome of 'em above 

 a year, without fuffering them to go near the Ri- 

 vers : From whence I conclude, that the Cafuifts are 

 ouc in not ranging Ducks, Gcefe, and Teals, in the 

 number cf Amphibious Animals,as theNaturaliftsare 

 wont to do. 1 had heard the fame ftory from fer 

 veral Americans before; but being apprehenfive that 

 there were different Species of Beavers, I had a mind 

 to be better inform'd : And indeed there is a parti- 

 cular kind of 'em, which the Savages call the Ter* 

 rejtmi, pr Land-Beaver ; but at the fame time they 

 tell you, thefe are of a different Species from the 

 Amphibious fort ; for they make Holes or Dens in 

 the Earth, like Rabbets or Foxes, and never go near 

 the Water unlets it be to drink. They are like- 

 wife cali'd by the Savages, the lazy or idle kind, 

 as being expelfd by the other Beavers from the Ken- 

 n?ls in which thtjfe Animus m lodg'd, to the 



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