. Buzzacott's masterpiece;. Hunting; Camping; Trapping. [from old catalog]. COMPLETE TRAPPERS GUIDE 413 as likely to run from a skunk as a lion. The fetid liquid is ejected in small streams, sometimes to the distance of four- teen feet, and usually with great accuracy of aim. As we have stated, the odor is stronger at night than during the Striped or spotted skunks in America are different from those in Europe. They are thicker and of a great many colors; not all alike, but each differing from another in a particular color. They smell like a fox, but ten times strong- er. When a dog enco
. Buzzacott's masterpiece;. Hunting; Camping; Trapping. [from old catalog]. COMPLETE TRAPPERS GUIDE 413 as likely to run from a skunk as a lion. The fetid liquid is ejected in small streams, sometimes to the distance of four- teen feet, and usually with great accuracy of aim. As we have stated, the odor is stronger at night than during the Striped or spotted skunks in America are different from those in Europe. They are thicker and of a great many colors; not all alike, but each differing from another in a particular color. They smell like a fox, but ten times strong- er. When a dog encounters them they make urine, and he will not be sweet again in a fortnight or more. The Indians love to eat their flesh, which has no manner of ill smell when the bladder is out. They are easily brought up tame. When one of them is attacked by a dog, to appear formid- able it so changes its usual form, by bristling up its hairs and contracting its length into a round form, that it makes a very terrible appearance. This menacing behavior, however, insufficient to deter its enemy, is seconded by a repulse far more prevailing; for from secret duct it emits such fetid effluviums, that the atmosphere for a large space round shall be so infected with them that men and other animals are impatient till they are quit of it. The stench is insupportable to some dogs, and necessitates them to let their game escape; others, by thrusting their noses into the earth, renew their attacks till t'hey have killed it; but rarely care to have more to do with such noisome game, which for four or five hours distracts them. The Indians, notwithstanding, esteem their flesh a dainty; of which I have eaten and found it tasted well. I have known them brought up young, made domestic, and prove tame and very active, without exercising that faculty which fear and self-preservation perhaps only prompts them. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhan
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