pekan

Others call it the fisher, although it never fishes, while to the Indians it is the pekan—the killer-in-the-dark.

Even yet he had one advantage which no amount of courage or speed on the part of the pekan could have overcome.

Spite can catch a Squirrel in the tree tops, but Pekan can catch Spite, and often does.

After feinting till the Kahk would not strike, the pekan began a new manceuvre.

A third had caught a pekan; but the prisoner had been worried and torn to atoms.