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By the plan now adopted, also, each of these three hunting parties, after they had reached their respective destinations and built their camps, were to explore the rivers ten or fifteen miles upward through the forest, and to some suitable and convenient terminus of their proposed trapping and hunting range; there build a camp, in which to lodge on their outward jaunts; and mark off, on their return, by blazing the trees, lines for setting log-traps for sable, marten, stoat, or ermine, for, whatever may be said to the contrary, the noted ermine of Europe is a native of our northern forests.
The black bear is often trapped and snared, in various ways such as by log-traps, nooses tied to bent saplings, dead-falls, and steel-traps and he is thus caught much more readily than either the lynx, the fox, or the wolf. It would be easy to fill a volume with anecdotes and adventures in which the black bear figures as the hero.
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