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THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. 



CHAP. XIII. 



hooks attached to gimp. We also found in a cache snow- 

 shoes and snow-shovels, and near their camp fire the re- 



NASQUAPEE COPPER AND IKON FISH-HOOKS. 



mains of salmon trout on which they had fed a few days 

 before, having probably caught them in Nipisis Lake. At 

 the end of this beautiful sheet of water I saw a splendid 

 pair of caribou horns, which had been placed on the branch 

 of a tree during the winter. I did not think it unwise to 

 appropriate them. They are now placed in my collection 

 between a magnificent pair of wapiti horns from the 

 Assiniboine and those of a young bufialo bull from the 

 south branch of the Saskatchewan. Beaver tracks began 

 to be abundant, but we did not succeed in shooting any of 

 these cautious animals. As we left the lake and entered a 

 river, which we took to be the east branch of the Moisie, 

 or one of its tributaries, fresh caribou, fox, and bear 



