The Carkajou seems to be as expert at stratagem as the Beaver is sagacious in guarding against misfortunes. In winter he makes a hole immediately above the bed of the Beaver, which place he finds out by the acuteness of his smelling faculties from the animal steams which penetrate through the porous mass of Branches, grass, mud &c. which is cracked by the frost. During the noise he makes while working, the Beaver runs out of the house into one of the detached vaults, where they remain until night;– when one returns to learn the cause of the noise made in the day, and to know if all be safe. The Carkajou by this time has wrought his way through the house, and lies concealed in the Bed;– the unsuspecting Beaver seeing nothing stirring, proceeds into the house as usual, when in the moment he is jumping upon his Bed, the other seizes him by the throat and drags him through the newly made orifice into the woods, where he hides him under the snow, while he returns to the lodge, and destroys them all, the one after the other in the same manner.

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