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lake on the 15th. The journey down the lake was made under more 
favorable circumstances than in the spring, they had now a large boat 
with a crew of indians, and waiting for favorable wind, they could make 
the run in about three or four days. They left the camp at the east 
end of McLeods Bay on the 19th, and camped on the evening of the 
20th near the point of their departure from the lake in the spring. 
Zoological Notes. 
Barren Ground Caribou, Rangifer Grcvnlandica, Linn. 
On the present expedition the party lived almost exclusively by 
their guns, and as the most abundant, largest and best of the game 
animals was the caribou, the Journal is very exact in the account of the 
numbers seen and shot each day. This, of course, would vary in 
different localities. 
This animal is essentially a rover, moving southward in the latter 
part of summer, wintering in the partly wooded districts and returning 
northward in the spring early before the ice is gone from the lakes. 
This season they had evidently started before the expedition, as none 
were seen along the north shore of Slave Lake nor on their trip inland 
until they were past Lac du Mort on June 1st. After this the party 
were not in the desperate straits recorded in the Journal up to that time. 
By following the bands of deer they were able to supply their larder 
whenever needed. Their dogs were better fed and stronger. The deer 
here seem to be all males and Mr. McKinley explains and states the 
fact as follows : "They are the bucks on their way out after the does 
which have left some time ago to have their young near the sea coast. 
They (the bucks) move out as the snow disappears and meet them out 
on the barren ground on their return." 
Their movement northward was at about the same rate as the 
the travelling of the party of hunters. Occasionally these had to hurry 
up to get among the deer again. On July 12th, after a stay of ten days 
on Musk-ox Lake, they concluded the deer were Nearly all north of 
them as they had been unsuccessful in killing many at a well-known 
crossing. On the 10th of June a note is made that the horns on the 
bucks were then a foot and a hall in length and were much prized by 
the Indians as an article of diet. 
