Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts. [Please select]
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Here it took all her strength to check his headlong flight over deadfalls and between small jack-pines. [Please select]
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And where once the deadfalls and poison baits of Tusoo had kept the wolves thinned down, there was no longer a menace for these mohekuns of the wilderness. [Please select]
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Nepeese carefully dipped a hundred traps in boiling caribou fat mixed with beaver grease, while Pierrot made fresh deadfalls ready for setting on his trails. [Please select]
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He was determined that she should have it, whether the fifth traps and the fifth deadfalls and fifth poison baits caught the fur or not. [Please select]
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Under the deadfalls were remnants of fur, and out on the ice of the lakes were picked skeletons of foxes and wolves that had taken the poison baits. [Please select]
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"You know, Lerue--he has a hundred and fifty traps and deadfalls set, and a big poison-bait country." [Please select]
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It was midafternoon when they crossed the trail along which Bush McTaggart's traps and deadfalls had been set. [Please select]
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--the deadfalls and snares are employed in taking the wolf the raccoon and fox of which there are a few only. [Please select]
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"Seven or eight years ago I used to set deadfalls for rabbits just over there, and the game was always partly eaten up." [Please select]
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