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Crabclg anfr%frbenturcgremaining three days on the scaffold, was putinto the kettle.the female bear that makes herIt is onlywinter lodging in the upper parts of trees, apractice by which her young are secured fromthe attacks of wolves and other animals.Shebrings forth in the winter season; and remainsin her lodgetill the cubs have gained somestrength.The male always lodges in the ground underthe roots of trees. He takes to this habitationas soon as the snow falls, and remains theretill it has disappeared. The Indians remarkthat the bear comes out in the spring with thesame fat which he carried in in the autumn;but after exercise of only a few days, becomeslean. Excepting for a short part of the season,the male lives constantly alone.The fat of our bear was melted down, andthe oil filled six porcupine A skins.63 part of themeat was cut into strips, and fire dried, afterwhich it was put into the vessels containingthe oil, where it remained in perfect preservationuntil the middle of summer.February, in the country and by the peoplewhere and among whom I was, is called theMoon of Hard, or Crusted Snow; for now thesnow can bear a man, or at least dogs, inpursuit of animals of the chase. At this seasonthe stag isvery successfully hunted, his feet^The animal which, in America, is called a porcupine,is a hedge-hog or urchin. Author.141