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smaller species are not driven to the sea- 

 coast solely by the attacks of that insect. 

 There are a few rein-deer occasionally killed 

 in the spring, whose skins are entire, and 

 these are always fat, whereas the others are 

 lean at that season. This insect likewise 

 infests the red-deer (wawasheesh ), but its 

 ova are not found in the skin of the moose, 

 or buffalo, nor, as we have been informed, 

 of the sheep and goat that inhabit the Rocky 

 Mountains, although the rein-deer found in 

 those parts, (which are of an unusually .,, 

 large kind,) are as much tormented by them 

 as the barren-ground variety. 



The herds of rein-deer are attended in 

 their migrations by bands of wolves, which 

 destroy a great many of them. The Copper 

 Indians kill the rein-deer in the summer 

 with the gun, or taking advantage of a fa- 

 vourable disposition of the ground, they 

 enclose a herd upon a neck of land, and 

 drive them into a lake, where they fall an 

 easy prey ; but in the rutting season and in 

 the spring, when they are numerous on the 

 skirts of the woods, they catch them in 



