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The Pekan or Fisher.
There was one large track in the snow that they saw several times--it was like that of a marten, but much larger.

"Pekan," said the Indian, "the big marten; the very strong one, that fights without fear." "When my father was a papoose he shot an arrow at a pekan.

He did not know what it was; it seemed only a big black marten.

It was wounded, but sprang from the tree on my father's breast.