Besides, venison is so abundant that the sheep can on this account be the more easily dispensed with. Fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pigeons and other feathered game are, also, easily obtained. . Lions, whose skins the Indians bring to market, are caught on a high mountain, situated fifteen days journey to the southwest.?. Here, also, are many pitch black

Why it failed.

Their ornaments.

Horses.

Sheep.

Lions.

1 In former times, this diocese included the provinces of Overijssel and Utrecht. See, Martinet's Beschryving der Nederlanden, ii., 205, 206

2 This animal is doubtless the Panther.--Ep.

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bus atiace, ""8"-bears, shy of men, but which, when attacked, spring

on the hunters ; they first stop the wound with a pledget of leaves, and if the hunter, meanwhile, takes refuge in a tree, climb after and above him, then stick the head between the legs and fall downward. They sleep during winter, lying six weeks on one side and an equal time on the other, sucking their paw. A cripple bush or hollow mountain serves them eatin for a sleeping place. On the borders of Canada animals. ~ animals are now and again seen, somewhat resembling a horse; they have cloven hoofs, shaggy manes, a horn right out of the forehead, a tail like that of the wild hog, black eyes, a stag's neck & love the gloomiest wildernesses ; are shy of each other so that the male never feeds with the female except when they associate for purposes of increase. Then they lay aside their ferocity ; as soon as the rutting season is past, they again not only become wild but even attack their own. South of New Netherland are found numerous elks, animals which according to Erasmus Stella constitute a middle class between horses and deer.