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CARIBOU OR AMERICAN REINDEER. 
not less than two or three miles, while the Deer’s path is exactly along the 
middle, between the two rows of brushwood. Indians employed on this 
service always pitch their tents on or near to an eminence that affords a 
commanding prospect of the path leading to the pound, and when they see 
any Deer going that way, men, women, and children walk along the lake 
or river side under cover of the woods, till they get behind them, then step 
forth to open view, and proceed towards the pound in form of a crescent. 
The poor timorous Deer, finding themselves pursued, and at the same time 
taking the two rows of brushy poles to be two ranks of people stationed to 
prevent their passing on either side, run straight forward in the path till 
they get into the pound. The Indians then close in, and block up the 
entrance with some brushy trees that have been cut down and lie at hand 
for that purpose. The Deer being thus enclosed, the women and children 
walk round the pound to prevent them from jumping over or breaking 
through the fence, while the men are employed spearing such as are 
entangled in the snares, and shooting with bows and arrows those which 
remain loose in the pound. This method of hunting, if it deserve the 
name, is sometimes so successful that many families subsist by it without 
having occasion to move their tents above once or twice during the course 
of a whole winter ; and when the spring advances, both the Deer and the 
Indians draw out to the eastward on the ground which is entirely barren, 
or at least which is called so in these parts, as it neither produces trees nor 
shrubs of any kind, so that moss and some little grass is all the herbage 
which is to be found on it.” 
With the following extract from the Fauna Boreali Americana, our 
readers may perhaps be amused : “ The Dog-rib Indians have a mode of 
killing these animals, which, though simple, is very successful. It was 
thus described by Mr. Wentzel, who resided long amongst that people: 
The hunters go in pairs, the foremost man carrying in one hand the horns 
and part of the skin of the head of a Deer, and in the other a small bundle 
of twigs, against which he, from time to time, rubs the horns, imitating the 
gestures peculiar to the animal. His comrade follows, treading exactly in 
his footsteps, and holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so that 
the muzzles project under the arms of him who carries the head. Both 
hunters have a fillet of white skin round their foreheads, and the foremost 
has a strip of the same around his wrists. They approach the herd by 
degrees, raising their legs very slowly but setting them down somewhat 
suddenly after the manner of a Deer, and always taking care to lift their 
right or left feet simultaneously. If any of the herd leave off feeding to 
gaze upon this extraordinary phenomenon it instantly stops, and the head 
begins to play its part by licking its shoulders and performing other 
