This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ... they can so directly passe and wander in these desarts, sometymes three or fower dayes' journyes, meeting with no habitacions, and, by reason of the woods, not having sight of the sun, wherby to direct them how to coast yt. Theire huntinge howses are not soe laboured, substancyall, nor artyficyall as their other, but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ... they can so directly passe and wander in these desarts, sometymes three or fower dayes' journyes, meeting with no habitacions, and, by reason of the woods, not having sight of the sun, wherby to direct them how to coast yt. Theire huntinge howses are not soe laboured, substancyall, nor artyficyall as their other, but are hke our soldiers' cabins, the frame sett up in too or three howers, cast over head, with matts, which the women beare after them as they carry likewise come, acornes, morters, and all bag and baggage to use, when they come to the place where they purpose for the tyme to hunt. In the tyme of hunting every man will strive to doe his best to shew his fortune and dexterity, for by their excelling therin they obteyne the favour of the women. At their hunting in the desarts they are comonly two or three hundred togither. With the sun rising they call up on e another, and goe forth searching after the heard, which when they have found, they environ and circle with many fiers, and betwixt the fiers they place themselves, and there take up their stands, making the most terrible noise that they can. The deare being thus feared by the fires and their voices, betake them to their heeles, whome they chase so long within that circle, that many tymes they kill six, eight, ten, or fifteen in a morning. They use also to drive them into some narrow point of land, when they find that advantage, and so force them into the river, where with their boats they have ambuscades to kill them. When they have shott a deare by land, they followe him (hke bloodhounds) Hke the blood and straine,1 and often tymes so take him. Hares, partriges, 1 Hunting term. The view or track of a deer. turkeys, fatt or leane, young or old, in eggs, in breeding time, or however they devo...
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