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the hunting country, there they flop, build huts, and 
wait till the waters are frozen, and the feafon com¬ 
mences : before they begin the chafe, their leader af- 
fembies them, they unite in a prayer to the Almighty 
for fuccefs, and then feparate : the firft fable they 
take is called God’s fable, and is dedicated to th© 
church. 
They' then penetrate into the woods, mark the 
trees as they advance, that they may know their way 
back ; and in their hunting quarters, form huts of 
trees, and bank up the fnow round them: near 
thefe they lay their traps, then advance farther, and 
lay more traps, {till building new huts in every 
quarter, and return fucceffiveiy to every old one, to 
vilit the traps, and take out the game to Ikin it, 
which none but the chief of the party rnufl do: 
during this time they are flipplied with provifions 
by perfons who are employed to bring it on fledges, 
from the places on the road, where they are obliged 
to form magazines, by reafon of the impractica¬ 
bility of bringing quantities thro’ the rough coun¬ 
try they mult pafs. The traps are a fort of pit- 
fall, with a loofe board placed over it, baited with 
fifh or flefh : when fables grow fcarce, the hun¬ 
ters trace them in the new fallen fnow, to their 
holes, place their nets at the entrance, and fome- 
times wait, watching two or three days for the com¬ 
ing out of the animal: it has happened that thefe 
poor people have, by the failure of their provifions, 
been lo pinched with hunger, that, to prevent the 
cravings of appetite, they have been reduced to 
take two thin boards, one of which they apply to 
the 
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