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In the case of the stone a duplicate rope or chain will be required to lift it in case of capture. The trap may be set at the entrance to the holes in the banks, two or three inches under water, implanting the stick with the castoreum bait directly over the pan, a few inches above the water.
As Rolfe promised, we had many hunting adventures; and among the rest, the battue of beavers nearly two thousand of which were trapped and taken. As soon as spring arrived, we made ready to set forth. Three wagons were prepared two of them loaded with furs and valuable castoreum. The third carried the females while Rolfe and his sons rode upon horseback.
There are parks, but no palaces there are fertile fields, but none to till them for it is even dangerous to traverse them in the open light of day. The trapper skulks silently along the creek scarcely trusting himself to whisper to his companion and watching warily as he renews the bait of castoreum. The hunter glides with stealthy tread from copse to copse dreading the echo of his own rifle.
In addition to pepper from Mali on the coast of Malabar, and the articles already enumerated from China, &c., copper, a wood resembling ebony, and a variety of stuffs, were imported from Calliena, a port shut to the Egyptian Greeks at the time of the Periplus; and from Sindu they imported musk, castoreum, and spikenard.
All footprints should be carefully obliterated by throwing water upon them, and some trappers say that the mere act of spitting on the ground in the neighborhood of the traps has been known to thwart success. Almost the only bait used in trapping the beaver is the preparation called "barkstone" by the trappers, or "castoreum" in commerce.
This is done with a small twig of wood, the end of which he chews, and, dipping it in the Castoreum, places it just above water, close to the trap, which is beneath the surface, and in such a position that the beaver must pass over it to get at the bait.
With his teeth he cut the broken leg off, and went away. It was supposed that he would not come again; but two nights afterwards he was found fast in a trap in each case tempted by the castoreum. The stake was always licked, or sucked, clean. The substance seems to act as a soporific, as the creatures, after tasting it, always remain a day without coming out of their houses.
Beauty, sense of, sufficiently permanent for action of sexual selection. Beaven, Lieut., on the development of the horns in Cervus Eldi. Beaver, instinct and intelligence of the; voice of the; castoreum of the. Beavers, battles of male.
They all go up river in the autumn with their winter's supply of pork, flour, tea, powder, lead, axes, files, rosin to mend their canoes, and castoreum made out of beaver glands, you know to take away the smell of their hands from the baited traps.
It is said that the inhabitants of a particular lodge go forth, and having rid themselves of their superabundant castoreum at a little distance, return home; when the beavers of another lodge, scenting the castoreum, proceed to the same spot, and covering it over with a layer of earth and leaves, deposit their own castoreum upon the heap.
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