162 Quadrupeds. 
Supply, their wholesome fare, and cheerful cups : 
Obsequious at tlieir call, the docile tribe 
Yield to the sled their necks, and whirl them swift 
O'er hill and dale, heaped into one expanse 
Of marbled snow, as far as eye can sweep, 
With a blue crest of ice unbounded glazed." 
The mode of hunting the wild Rein-deer by the Lap- 
landers, the Esquimaux, and the Indians of North 
America, has been accurately described by late tra- 
vellers. Captain Franklin gives the following interest- 
ing account of the mode practised by the Dog-rib 
Indians, to kill these animals. " 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 round 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 necessar}?- movements. In this way the hunters 
attain the very centre of the herd without exciting sus- 
picion, and have leisure to single out the fattest. The 
hindmost man then pushes forward his comrade's gun, 
the head is dropped, and they both fire nearly at the 
same instant. The Deer scamper off, the hunters trot 
after them ; in a short time the poor animals halt, to 
ascertain the cause of their terror ; their foes stop at the 
same moment, and having loaded as they ran, greet the 
gazers with a second fatal discharge. The consternation 
of the Deer increases ; they run to and fro in the utmost 
confusion; and sometimes a great part of the herd is 
destroyed within the space of a few hundred yards." 
