254 
* € The English at Hudson's Bay depend 
greatly on Geese, of these and other kinds, 
for their support, and in favourable years 
kill three or four thousand, which they 
salt and barrel. Their arrival is impati- 
ently attended ; it is the harbinger of the 
spring, and the month named by the In- 
dians the goose moon. They appear usu- 
ally at our settlements in numbers, about 
St. George's day, O. S. and fly northward 
to nestle in security. They prefer islands 
to the continent, as further from the haunts 
of men. Thus Marble Island was found, 
in August, to swarm with Swans, Geese, 
and Ducks, the old ones moulting, and 
the young at that time incapable of fly* 
ing" 
ff The English send out their servants, 
as well as Indians, to shoot these birds on 
their passage. It is in vain to pursue 
them : they therefore form a row of huts 
made of boughs, at musket shot distant 
from each other, and place them in a line 
across the vast marshes of the country, 
Each hovel, or, as they are called, stand* 
is occupied by only a single person. These 
