GLACIAL FRINGE OF GRANT LAND 205 



on the recent tracks of six deer in a patch of 

 snow, and this put me on the alert and made me go 

 cautiously. 



About a mile from the sledges as I rose over a 

 gravel ridge, there were four deer, two close by, a doe 

 and fawn farther on. 



I dropped down at once, watched them a moment 

 or two, then turned to signal to Egingwah. 



He had secured one hare, and fired at another, 

 then I saw him start towards me on the run. He had 

 seen the deer almost as soon as I. When he came 

 up, I sent him on, and in a short time he had two of 

 them down, the doe and fawn making off up the fore- 

 shore to the west. 



It was now just thirty-five minutes since I had 

 landed, and we had two deer and a hare. I sent 

 Egingwah back to Ooblooyah to bring up the dogs and 

 sledges and while he was gone the cry of the purple 

 sandpipers was continuous about me and I saw a 

 white fox skulking along the rocks. 



When the boys came up, the tent was pitched near 

 the deer, and convenient to water, and I made coffee. 



Then Ooblooyah was sent after the doe and fawn 

 and after photographing the deer, Egingwah and I 

 skinned and cut them up, and fed the dogs generously. 



Both were does, neither pregnant, nor very large, 

 and very thin though evidently putting on flesh, the skin 

 of course in bad condition and antlers in the velvet. 

 A very noticeable feature was the length of the hoofs, 

 and the development of the dew claws into regular 

 spoons as large as a hare's ears, thus giving the deer 

 natural snowshoes, which they need in this country 



