Show HOW INDIANS KILLED DEER THE GREAT FOREST FENCES OF newfoundland DESCRIBED the co yukon indians of alaska kill the moose in large numbers while swimming across the yukon river during their periodical migrations maneuvering eu around in their birch bark canoes until the animal is fatigued and then approach and stab it il in the heart or loins another and more ingenious mode of 0 capturing deer adopted by these indians is thus described by mr in his hia travels in alaska 17 A kind of 0 corral or inclosure elliptical in torm form and open at one end is made on a deer trail generally near the outlet of a wood the farther end of the Ine losea space is barricaded barricades barrica ded the sides are ara built of stakes with slip nooses or loops between them herds of deer are driven in from the woods and trying to break from the trap generally run their heads beads into the nooses tighten them and so HO get caught or are shot while still bewildered and running from side to side near the opening it la is common to erect piles of snow with portholes port holes through which den shoot at the passing deer 11 we will notice botic ce last lastly ay the deer fences of the once numerous and powerful but bat now new extinct beothia beithle nation the aboriginal inhabitants of newfoundland they are thus described by mr harvy in a recent interesting book on newfoundland the deer fences were made by telling trees along the i idge of if the rivers bank without cbs chopping the trunks quite asunder taking care leat they tell fell parallel with the river each tree having been bee guided so as to coincide with and f fall I 1 upon pon t the e la ladt 1 gaps were filled up by b y driving dri stake t k e q and interweaving t the b e b branches rt e an and d limbs of other trees they were raised to the height of six se seve venor flor ten festas the place required and were not to be forced or leaped by the largest deer it is interesting to notice that large portions of these deer fences still remain in some parts of the interior of newfoundland prin elpel cl pally h however however in those lying to the northwest or t at I 1 the usual headquarters headquarter of the beotes the intrepid cormack when traveling in newfoundland saw those which lie on the bank of the river exploits and in the narrative of his expedit expedition fon he thus refers to them what arrests the attention mosi most while gliding down the stream is the extent of the indian fences to entrap the deer they extend from the lake downward continuously on the hanks of the riv riveral ri verat erlat least thirty miles there are openings left hye and there in them for the animals to go through and swim across the river and at these places the indians were stationed to kill them in the water with spears out of ef their canoes as at the lake here then connecting these fences with those on the northwest side of the lake are at least forty miles of country easterly and westerly prepared to intercept all the deer that pass that way in their perio periodical dicA migrations grat ions it was melancholy to contemplate the gi gigantic antic yet feeble efforts effort t of a whole primitive primitive nation in their anxiety to provide subsistence forsaken and going to decay there Ther must emust have been hundreds of toe red indians and that not many years ago to have kept up these fences fence and pounds lids t chambers journal |