There are a few reindeer occasionally killed in the spring whose skins are entire and these are always fat whereas the others are lean at that season.

This insect likewise infests the red-deer (wawaskeesh) but its ova are not found in the skin of the moose or buffalo, nor, as we have been informed, of the sheep and goat that inhabit the Rocky Mountains, although the reindeer found in those parts (which are of an unusually large kind) are as much tormented by them as the barren-ground variety.
The herds of reindeer are attended in their migrations by bands of wolves which destroy a great many of them.

The Copper Indians kill the reindeer in the summer with the gun or, taking advantage of a favourable disposition of the ground, they enclose a herd upon a neck of land and drive them into a lake where they fall an easy prey but, in the rutting season and in the spring, when they are numerous on the skirts of the woods, they catch them in snares.

The snares are simple nooses, formed in a rope made of twisted sinew, which are placed in the aperture of a slight hedge constructed of the branches of trees.

This hedge is so disposed as to form several winding compartments and, although it is by no means strong, yet the deer seldom attempt to break through it.