. Historical view of the progress of discovery on the more northern coasts of America [microform] : from the earliest period to the present time. Cabot, Sebastian, 1476?-1557; Cabot, Sebastian, 1476?-1557; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. CATCHING DEER IN A POUND 153 the moment any deer are seen going that way, the whole encampment, men, women, and children, steal under cover of the woods till they get behind them. They then show themselves in the open ground, and, drawing up in the form of a crescent advance with shouts. The deer finding themselves pursued, and at the same time imagining
. Historical view of the progress of discovery on the more northern coasts of America [microform] : from the earliest period to the present time. Cabot, Sebastian, 1476?-1557; Cabot, Sebastian, 1476?-1557; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. CATCHING DEER IN A POUND 153 the moment any deer are seen going that way, the whole encampment, men, women, and children, steal under cover of the woods till they get behind them. They then show themselves in the open ground, and, drawing up in the form of a crescent advance with shouts. The deer finding themselves pursued, and at the same time imagining the rows of brushy poles to be people stationed to prevent their passing on either side, run straight forward till they get into the r^-i^nd. The Indians instantly close in, block up f iie mumce, and whilst the wo- men and children rup rout d the outside to prevent them from breaking ;.i the fence, the men enter with their speais and bows, and speedily de- spatch such as are caught in the snares or are run- ning loose.* On the 8th of April, they reached an island in a small lake named Thelewey-aza-weth, and pitch- ed their tent; and as the deer were numerous, and the party, which had been joined by various wan- dering Indians, now amounted to seventy persons, they determined to remain for some time, and make preparations for their enterprise in the ensuing sum- mer. They were busily employed during their in- tervals from hunting, in providing staves of birch about one and a quarter inch square and seven or eight feet long, which served for tent-poles all the summer, and were converted into snow-shoes in wmter. Birch-rind, with timbers and other wood for canoes, formed also objects of attention; and as Uowey, the place fixed upon for building their canoes was still many miles distant, all the wood WM reduced to its proper size to make it lieht for • Hearne's Journey, p. 78^ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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