A F Pv I C A. ■ 
men, women, and children, in making the ne- 
ceffary preparations. 
At the entrance of a defile formed by twa 
hills, two rows of flakes were planted ; which, 
placed at a fmall diftance from each other 
like the trees of a grove, gradually diverged as: 
the row lengthened, till they reached a con- 
liderable way into the plain. The flakes were 
three feet high, and had a thong paiTed along 
their tops, from one to another. To this 
thong, here and there, oftrich feathers were 
hung. 
But as it would have been impoffible to 
have procured thongs enough to extend the 
whole length of the two rows, where they 
were wanting, the flakes were furnlfhed Vv^th 
bundles of oflrich feathers, wings of birds, 
ends of tails, pieces of ikins, and even w^hole 
kroffes; any thing, in fiiorr, that it w^as thought 
might ierve to frighten the game. - 
The fnare began at the very opening of the 
defile, where were dug, chequerwife, about 
twenty pits, ten feet deep by fix or feven wide, 
and covered on the furface fo as to be com- 
pletely hidden, though fo flightly that the leaft 
w^eight would break in the covering. The 
chace 
