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exterminated. My informants stated that last winter the hunters killed 

 from one to three hundred deer apiece. Besides deer a fairly succesful 

 hunt of fur-bearint; animals was also made. 



This region, so full of magnificent game every winter, is very easily 

 accessible, and a party of hunters could spend a few weeks among 

 the deer without the least discomfort and at the same time have 

 glorious sport. The railroad runs to Prince Albert and from there the 

 winter home of the Caribou is only 250 miles in a straight line, a 

 distance that could readily be covered in a week with dogs, and three 

 forts of the Hudson's Bay Company would furnish stopping places on 

 the route — Isle a la Crosse, the most northerly of the three, is the home 

 of Mr. H. G. Moberly, the officer in charge of the whole district, and a 

 keener sportsman, a pleasanter host, and a more genial companion 

 ■cannot be found in the west. 



Farther to the north, at Fond du Lac, near the east end of Lake 

 Athabasca, a venerable old hall-breed named Jose Mercredi, a native 

 of Red River, has kept one of the Trading Posts of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company for the past forty-seven years, supplying a band of about 

 80 Chipevvyans with ammunition, tea, tobacco and the few other 

 products of civilization which they require, receiving in return a large 

 amount of Caribou meat, in the form of dried meat and pemican, which 

 is sent to assist in supporting the people at Fort Chipewyan and other 

 less favoured posts on Athabasca and Slave Rivers. Fond du Lac itself 

 is situated at a narrow part of the lake on one of the main paths used 

 by the Caribou southward, and Mercredi informed me that for a week 

 or more in the autumn the deer can be killed in great numbers from 

 the door of the Post as they pass through the yard and among the 

 houses. Several of the men were said to have killed as many as four 

 hundred during the past year. 



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OVIS CANADENSIS DALLI, Ne/so;i. 



By R. G. McCoNNEi.L. 



While crossing the Rocky Mountains, in 188S, from Fort Mac- 

 pherson on Peel River to Lapierre House on the Porcupine, Lat. 67' 

 40' N., jhe writer was fortunate enough to come across the interesting 



