Porcupine hunting: we go to sit waiting for a porcupine and some of the habits of the porcupine

Porcupine hunting: we go to sit waiting for a porcupine and some of the habits of the porcupine

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>Hunting the Porcupine, its habits and faculties (L V.-7. 4436-4456). </i>The hunters sleep outside the porcupine's house so that it cannot smell them. The porcupine almost 'sees' with its nose, and the porcupine's eyes seem useless or 'sit for nothing' as it cannot see out of them.

1) p.4439v: what people say if an animal lies dead: the ostrich and the porcupine both 'stand', 2) This story is found in Book V-7

story

25 March 1875 (started)

Custom and daily life

Plants and animals

porcupine (methods of hunting), porcupine ('stands'), porcupine (its nature and habits), porcupine (its hole or house), porcupine (sitting waiting and watching for), porcupine (and the wind), porcupine (its faculties), porcupine ('sees' with its nose), porcupine (its nose tells it things), porcupine (is nocturnal), porcupine (when it returns), porcupine (and the time of day), porcupine (cannot see well at noon), porcupine (at night), porcupine (during the day), porcupine (smells the hunters), hunting (methods), hunting (of porcupine), hunting (sitting and waiting for porcupine), hunting (and the nature and habits of porcupines), hunting (and the porcupine's hole), hunting (at different times of day), wind (and porcupine hunting), wind (porcupine smells the hunters on the wind)

4436-4456