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Maftifls ; the other with a flat Foot, thefe are liker Grey- 
hounds, and are called Deer Wolfs, because they are 
accuftomed to prey upon Deer. A Wolf will eat a Wolf 
new dead, and fo do Bears as I fuppofe, for their dead 
Carkafes are never found, neither by the Indian nor 
Englifh. They go a dickering twelve days, and have as 
many Whelps at a Litter as a Bitch. The Indian Dog 1 is 
a Creature begotten 'twixt a Wolf and a Fox, which the 
Indians lighting upon, bring up to hunt the Deer with. 
The Wolf is very numerous, and go in companies, fome- 
times ten, twenty, more or fewer, and fo cunning, that 
feldome any are kill'd with Guns or Traps; but of late 
they have invented a way to deftroy them, by binding four 
Maycril Hooks a crofs with a brown thread, and then 
wrapping fome Wool about them, they dip them in melted 
Tallow till it be as round and as big as an Egg; thefe 
(when any Beaft hath been kill'd by the Wolves) they 
fcatter by the dead Carkafe, after they have beaten off the 
Wolves; about Midnight the Wolves are fure to return 
again to the place where they left the flaughtered Beaft, 
and the (16) firft thing they venture upon will be thefe 
balls of fat. 
but it is no such matter; for they care no more for an ordinary mastiff than an 
ordinary mastiff cares for a cur. Many good dogs have been spoiled by * 
them. . . . There is little hope of their utter destruction ; the country being so 
spacious, and they so numerous, travelling in the swamps by kennels : sometimes 
ten or twelve are of a company. ... In a word, they be the greatest inconven- 
iency the country hath." — Neiv-England^s Prospedi, I. c. 
1 Spoken of again in the Voyages, pp. 94 and 193; and in Hubbard, Hist. 
N. England, p. 25. Josselyn's may be compared with Lewis and Clark's notice of 
the Indian dog (Travels, vol. ii. p. 165). 
