e several sorts of Squirrels also,
which they do eat when they can catch them.

Before I make an end of my discourse of their Beasts, it may be
worthwhile to relate the ways they use to catch them. At which they
are very crafty.

[How they catch wild Beasts.] For the catching of Deer or other wild
Beasts, they have this ingenious device. In dark Moons when there
are drisling Rains, they go about this design. They have a basket
made with canes somewhat like unto a funnel, in which they put a
potsheard with fire in it, together with a certain wood, which they
have growing there, full of sap like pitch, and that will burn like a
pitch-barrel. This being kindled in the potsheard flames, and gives
an exceeding light. They carry it upon their heads with the flame
foremost; the basket hiding him that is under it, and those that come
behind it. In their hands they carry three or four small bells, which
they tingle as they go, that the noyse of their steps should not be
heard. Behind the man that carries the light, go men with Bowes and
Arrows. And so they go walking along the Plains, and by the Pond sides,
where they think the Deer will come out to feed. Which when they see
the light, stand still and stare upon it, seeing onely the light,
and hearing nothing but the tingling of the bells.

The eyes of the Deer or other Cattle first appear to them glittering
like Stars of light or Diamonds: and by their long experience they
will distinguish one Beast from another by their eyes. All Creatures,
as Deer, Hares, Elephants, Bears, &c. excepting onely wild Hogs,
will stand still, wondering at this strange sight, till the people
come as near as they do desire, and so let fly their Arrows upon
them. And by this means they seldom go, but they catch something. The
blades of their hunting-Arrowes are at least a foot or a foot and an
half long, and the length of the staff of their Arrowes is a Rian,
that is about two cubits.

Again, they will observe where a Deers haunt is to break over their
Hedges into the Corn Grounds. There they will set a sharp pole like
a Spear full against the Haunt. So that the Deer when she leaps over
thrusts her self upon the point of it.

If a Tyger chance to come into their Grounds and kill a Cow, they will
take notice of the place thro which he passed, and set a Cross-bow
there ready charged. The Tyger coming that way again touches something
that is fastned to the tricker of the Cross-bow, and so it disch