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I have tasted and found in Taste and flavour equal to the moose deer Depouille – its Colour is white, the Grease somewhat more oily[.] The other Animals are the Beaver, Otter, Wolfereene, Wolf, Lynx, Red, Grey, white & Black Foxes, Fisher, Porcupine, Ground Hog, Martin, mink, Ermine, Red, Ground & Flying Squirrels, Hares, Bats and mice[.]

Modes of hunting}

Modes of Hunting are different[.] In the Spring when a Crust is formed upon the Snow, the Inhabitants frequently, run down the Elk and Carriboux, who they fatigue so much that they often Kill them w^t their Spears[.] In the Summer & winter They Pursue them with Dogs, into Snares layed on purpose, these are ropes about three fathoms long, made of Large Babiche well twisted & has a Sliding Knot at each end[.] Then they tie upon a Small Tree on the Tracks of the Animals which when taken carries of the Sling untill the little Tree to which it is fastened happens to Rock against or between two large Trees, where the Animal, finding himself stopped, makes Such Efforts to disengage himself that he Spends himself […] & thus puts a Period to his life[.] The Flesh is exceeding bad, being overheated & full of Blood[.]

In the Rutting Season which always happens in Autumn, The Natives have a Should Blade of an Elk, w^t which they rub against a Tree while at the Same time they make the cries of an Elk this brings the elk quite close, when they easily Kill them w^t their Bows & Arrows[.] The chace of the Carribou in the rutting Season is quite different when one man Kills a female, He rises the Skin off the Head, from the thickest Part of the Neck to the other extreemity of the Nose – which is stuffed with

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