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 which he found with a sail at the outside of the rock, he goes to work, and makes several, which he fastens at divers gaps in the thicket within the wood, through which he judged that sort of beast he had a mind for went.

Impatient to know the success of his snares, he gets up betimes the next morning, and goes to examine them; in one of which he found a certain animal something like a fawn, the colour of a deer, but feet and ears like a fox, and as big as a well-grown hare; he was much rejoiced at his game, whose mouth he immediately opened to see if he could find whether it fed upon grass, or lived upon prey; the creature being caught by the neck, and strangled with struggling, before it died had brought up in its throat some of the greens it had been eating, which very much pleased him, accounting those which lived upon flesh as bad as carrion.

Having returned thanks for his good luck, he takes it home, in order to dress part of it for his dinner; so cases and guts it. And having stuck a long stick at both ends in the ground, making a half circle, he hangs one quarter of the animal upon a string before a good fire, and so roasts it.

His dinner being ready, having said grace, he set to eating with an uncommon appetite; and whether it was the novelty of the dish, or that the meat did really deserve the praise, he really thought he never eat any kind of flesh, till then, comparable to it either for taste or tenderness.

Having made a couple of nets, about four feet square, which he fastens in the room of the killing snares, so retired, and resolved to come and examine them every morning.

Several days passed without taking any thing,