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to escape by the water from the noisy line of 

 beaters.' 



Nicolas Perrot, writing more than two hundred 

 years ago, tells of moose drives among the Crees 

 of the Lake Superior region, in which dogs trained 

 for the purpose would unassisted drive moose into 

 the water while the Indians lay in wait in canoes 

 to slaughter the game."^ 



In many cases the game would be driven into a 

 permanent enclosure which the Indians would con- 

 struct on land. An interesting collection of animals 

 would no doubt be gathered in as a result of a 

 successful drive — moose, deer, and caribou often 

 finding themselves companions in a common fate.^ 



Champlain describes one of these drives under- 

 taken by the Huron Indians while on a foray into 

 the Iroquois country in 1615. The barriers 

 leading to the small enclosure where the game was 

 to be killed were eight or nine feet high and about 

 fifteen hundred paces long on each side. The 

 opening leading to the smaller enclosure, which 

 may have been called the slaughter pen, was five 

 feet wide. 



' Charlevoix, Journal d*un Voyage dans VAmerique Septentrionale, in 

 letter dated March 11, 172 1. 



" Memoir of the Manners^ Customs, and Religion of the Savages of 

 North America (Cleveland, 191 1), vol. i., p. 108. 



* Charlevoix, ubi supra. 



