. Arctic zoology [microform]. Mammals; Mammifères. I«. VIRGINIAN DEER. j(^N'. J. MsxiCAir. // â â in all the luxuries of the country. The chafe rouzcs their appetites} they are perpetually eating, and will even rife to obey, at midnight, the calls of hunger. ⢠Their viands are exquifite. Venifon boiled with red peafe; turkies barbecued and eaten with bears fat j fawns cut out of the does belly, and boiled in the native bag j fifh, and crayfifh, taken in the next ftream ; dried peaches, and other fruits, form the chief of their good living *. Much of this food is carmina- tive : they giv
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Mammals; Mammifères. I«. VIRGINIAN DEER. j(^N'. J. MsxiCAir. // â â in all the luxuries of the country. The chafe rouzcs their appetites} they are perpetually eating, and will even rife to obey, at midnight, the calls of hunger. ⢠Their viands are exquifite. Venifon boiled with red peafe; turkies barbecued and eaten with bears fat j fawns cut out of the does belly, and boiled in the native bag j fifh, and crayfifh, taken in the next ftream ; dried peaches, and other fruits, form the chief of their good living *. Much of this food is carmina- tive : they give loofe to the effeds, and (reverfe to the cuftom of the delicate Arabs f) laugh moft heaitily on the occafion J. They bring along with them cheir wives and miftreffes: not that they pay any great reipecl to the fair. They make (like the Cath- ttejians) errant pack-horfcs of them, loading them with provifions, or the (kirs of the chafe i or making them provide fire-wood. Love is not th<; pafllon of a Savage, at left it is as brief with them as with the animals they purfue. » Mexican Roe i Hift. ^mJ. N* ^z.âSmtllie, iv. 136. DEER. With horns near nine inches long, meafuring by the curvature { and near nine inches between tip and tip, ana two inches diftant between the bafes. About an inch and a half from the bottom is oie ftiarp eredt fnag. This, and the lower parts of the horns, are very ro igh, ftrong, and fcabrous. The upper parts bend forwards over the bafes; are fmooth, flatted, and broad, dividing into three fharp fnags. Color of the hair like the European Roe; but whiit young are rayed with white. In fize fomewhat fuperior to the European Re -. Inhabits Mexico (|; probably extends to the interior north-weftern parts o( America, and may prove the Scenoontung or Squinaton, defcribcd as being lefs than a Buck and larger than a Roe, but very like it, and of an elegajit form §. ⢠Lawfin, J07. H UirnaHdtK. t D'Jt»vitux't Iravth, 147. § Deii/i Hinf/m't
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