ted in the woods, so that
when he offers to seize the bait, he pulls the trigger, and the gun
discharges upon him. What Aelian and Pliny write, of the horses being
benumed in their legs, if they tread in the track of a wolf, does not
hold good here; for I myself, and many others, have rid full speed
after wolves in the woods, and have seen live ones taken out of a trap,
and dragged at a horse's tail; and yet those that followed on horse
back, have not perceived any of their horses to falter in their pace.

Sec. 90. They have many pretty devices besides the gun to take wild
turkeys; and among others, a friend of mine invented a great trap,
wherein he at times caught many turkeys, and particularly seventeen at
one time; but he could not contrive it so as to let others in, after he
had entrapped the first flock, until they were taken out.

Sec. 91. The Indian invention of weirs in fishing is mightily improved by
the English, besides which they make use of seins, trolls, casting nets,
setting nets, hand fishing and angling, and in each find abundance of
diversion. I have sat in the shade at the heads of the rivers angling,
and spent as much time in taking the fish off the hook as in waiting for
their taking it. Like those of the Euxine sea, they also fish with
spilyards, which is a long line staked out in the river, and hung with a
great many hooks on short strings, fastened to the main line, about
three or four feet asunder, supported by stakes, or buoyed up with
gourds. They use likewise the Indian way of striking the light of a fire
in the night, as is described in the second book, chapter 5, section 23.

Sec. 92. Their fowling is answerable to their fishing for plenty of game in
its proper season. Some plantations have a vast variety of it, several
sorts of which I have not yet mentioned, as beaver, otter, squirrels,
partridges, pigeons, and an infinite number of small birds, &c.

Sec. 93. The admirable economy of the beavers deserves to be particularly
remembered. They cohabit in one house are incorporated in a regular form
of government, something like monarchy, and have over them a
superintendent, which the Indians call pericu. He leads them out to
their several employments, which consist in felling of trees, biting off
the branches, and cutting them into certain lengths, suitable to the
business they design them for, all which they perform with their teeth.
When this is done, the pericu orders several of his subje