ELS* 
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Sometimes the Indians assemble in multitudes in 
their canoes, and form with them a vast crescent 
towards the shore. Large parties then go into 
the woods, surround an extensive tract, let loose 
their dogs, and press, with loud hallooings, towards 
the water. The alarmed animals fly before the 
hunters, and plunge into the lake, where they are 
killed with lances or clubs, by the persons prepared 
for their reception in the canoes. 
The Indians also sometimes inclose a large piece 
of ground with stakes, woven with branches of 
trees, which form two sides of a triangle, the bot- 
tom opening into a second inclosure completely 
triangular. In the opening are hung snares made 
of slips of raw hides. The deer are driven by a 
party in the woods, into the first inclosure, and 
some endeavouring to force their way into the 
farthest triangle, are caught in the snares by their 
neck or horns ; and those which escape the snares, 
and pass the opening, meet their fate from the 
arrows of the hunters directed at them from all 
quarters. 
The elks are the easiest to tame and domesticate 
of any of the deer kind. They will follow their 
keeper to any distance from home) and at his 
call return with him, without the least trouble, 
and without ever attempting to deviate from the 
path. 
An Indian had, at the factory at Hudson's Bay, 
in the year 1777, two of them so tame, that when 
he was on his passage to Prince of Wales’s Fort, 
in a canoe, they always followed him along the 
bank of the river ; and at night or on any other 
occasion, when he loaded, they generally came 
and fondled on him, in the same manner as the most 
domestic animal would have done, and never 
offered to stray from the tents. He did not, how- 
ever, possess these animals long, for he one day 
