RATTLE SNAKE. 
it escape by running ofF, or does it ever at- 
lemDt to do so ^vhen attacked. 
This traveller obsen-es, that some nations 
of the Indians never kill the Rattle Snake, or 
anv other serpent ; alledging, as their reason, 
tliat if thev did so, the spirit of the snake 
would excite or influence it's living kindred or 
relations to revenge the injury or violence done 
to it when alive. 
The flesh of the Rattle Snake is said to be 
much relished, even by Europeans. 
