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all that write of trie Elk defcribe him with a tuft of hair 
on the left Leg behind, a little above the pattern jo} r nt on 
the outfide of the Leg, not unlike the tuft (as I conceive) 
that groweth upon the breaft of a Ttirkie Cock, which I 
could never yet fee upon the Leg of a Moofc, and I have 
feen fome number of them. 
For Children breeding Teeth. 
The Indian Webbcs make ufe of the broad Teeth of the 
Fawns to hang about their Childrens Neck when they are 
breeding of their Teeth. The Tongue of a grown Moofc, 
dried in the fmoak after the Indian manner, is a difh for a 
Sagamor. 
The Maccarib} 
The Maccarib, Caribo, or Pohano, a kind of Deer, as 
big as a Stag, round hooved, fmooth hair'd and foft as filk ; 
1 Wood (N. E. Prospedt, /. c.) has but two kinds of deer: of which the first is 
the moose; and the second, called "ordinary deer," and, in the vocabulary of 
Indian words, ottuck (compare attuck or noo?iatch, deer, — R. Williams, /. c. ; 
but aiteyk, in the Cree dialedt, signifies a small sort of rein-deer, — Richardson, 
in Appendix to Franklin's Journey, p. 665 ; and it is observable that Rasles' word 
for chez'reuil is norke), is our American fallow-deer. R. Williams also appears 
to distinguish with clearness but two; which are, perhaps, the same as Wood's. 
Josselyn, in this book, passes quite over the common, or fallow-deer: but, making 
up in the Voyages for the fallings-short of the Rarities, he goes, in the former, 
quite the other way ; reckoning the roe, buck, red deer, rein-deer, elk, maurouse, 
and maccarib. What is further said of these animals, where he speaks more at 
large, makes it appear likely that the second, third, and fourth names, so far as 
they have any value, belong to a single kind, — the "ordinary deer" of Wood 
(whose description possibly helped Josselyn's), or our fallow-deer; to which the 
"roe" is also to be referred: and the "elk" he himself explains as the moose. 
But, beside these two kinds, Josselyn has the merit of indicating, with some 
