Having eaten the meats that have been offered, the broth is served from the kettle, each one drinking of this according to his thirst. If it is a banquet of devotion, that is to say, a leave-nothing feast, sometimes they are also obliged to drink all the broth. At other times, it is enough if they eat all the meat, being free to drink what they want of the broth. When the Master of the feast sees them stop eating, he pronounces the words which terminate the banquet, which are the following, or others like them: _Egou Khé Khiouiecou_, "Now you will go away; return this feast when you please." The feast concluded, some remain a little while to talk, and others leave immediately, going out without trumpets; that [148] is, they go out without saying a word; sometimes they say, _Nikhiouan_, "I am going;" the answer is, _Niagouté_, "Go then." See the profuseness of their compliments. CHAPITRE IX. DE LEUR CHASSE & DE LEUR PESCHERIE. COMMENÇONS par l'Elan, quand il y a peu de neiges, ils le tuent a coups de fleches, le premier que nous mangeasmes fut ainsi mis à mort, mais c'est vn grand hazard quand ils peuuent approcher de ces animaux à la portée de leurs arcs, car ils sentent les Sauuages de fort loing, & courent aussi viste que les Cerfs. Quand les neiges sont profondes, ils poursuiuent l'Elan à la course, & le tuent à coups d'espées, qu'ils emmanchent à de longs bastons pour cét effect: ils dardent ces espées quand ils n'osent ou ne peuuent aborder la beste, ils poursuiuent par fois deux & trois iours vn de ces animaux, les neiges n'estant, ny assez dures ny assez profondes d'autrefois vn enfant les tueroit quasi, car la neige venant à se glacer apres quelque petit dégel, ou quelque pluye, elle blesse ces pauures Orignaux, qui ne vont pas loing sans estre massacrez. CHAPTER IX. ON THEIR HUNTING AND FISHING. LET us begin with the Elk. When there is very little snow, they kill it with arrows, the first that we ate being taken in this way. But it is a great stroke of luck when they can approach these animals within range of their bows, as they scent the Savages at a great distance, and run as fast as Deer. When the snow is deep, they pursue the Elk on foot, and kill it with thrusts from javelins which are fastened on long poles for this purpose, and which they hurl when they dare not or cannot approach the beast. Sometimes they chase one of these animals for two or three days, the snow being neither hard nor deep enough; while at other times a child could almost kill them, for, the snow being frozen after a slight thaw or rain, these poor Moose are hurt by it, and cannot go far without being slaughtered.