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fierce, and fights with the Pecary, or any other 

 Creature that comes in his way. The Indians hunt 

 thefe alfo as the other, and manage their Flefh the 

 fame way, except only as to what concerns the 

 Navel ; the Singularity of which is peculiar to the 

 Pecary 



They have confiderable Store of Deer alio, re- D Ur . 

 fembling moft our Red Deer ; but thefe they never 

 hunt nor kill ; nor will they ever eat of their Flefh, 

 though 'tis very good ; but we were not fhy of it. 

 Whether it be out of Superftition, or for any other 

 Reafon that they forbear them, I know not : But 

 when they faw fome of our -Men killing and eating 

 of them, they not only refus'd to eat with them, 

 but feem'd difpleas'd with them for it. Yet they 

 preferve the Horns of thefe Deer, fetting them up 

 in their Houfes ; but they are fuch only as they' 

 fned, for I never faw among them fo much as the 

 Skin or Head of any of them that might fhew they 

 had been kill'd by the Indians \ and they are too 

 nimble for the Warree^ if not a Match for him. 



The Dogs they have are final! , not well fhap'd, Dop. 

 their Hair rough and ftragling, like our Mungrels. 

 They ferve only to bark and ftart the Game, or by 

 their barking give Notice to the Hunters to fhoot 

 their Arrows, They will run about in this Manner 

 from Morning to Night ; but are fuch meer whiff- 

 ling Curs, that of 2 or 300 Beafts ftarted in a Day, 

 they (hall feldom kill above 2 or 3 ; "and thefe not 

 by running them down, but by getting them at a 

 Bay and befetting them, till the Hunters can come 

 up with them. Large flrong Dogs would make 

 better Work here ; and it might be a very accepta- 

 ble Thing to the Indians to tranfport hither a Breed 

 of fuch; But then they muft keep to their Houfes, 

 or they would be in Danger of running wild in this • 

 Country. . . 



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