PORCUPINE.' 
but avoid going into it: when they cannot avoid 
their purfUer, will fidle towards him, in order to 
touch him with the quils, which feem but weak wea¬ 
pons of offence; for, on (broking the hair, they will 
come out of the (kin, (licking to the hand. The 
Indians (lick them in their nofes and ears, to make 
holes for the placing their ear-rings and. other finery: 
they alfo trim the edges of their deer-(kins habits 
with fringes made of the quils, or cover with them 
their bark-boxes. 
