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of bare snow-covered ground, I expected to 

 sight these caribou every moment. Presently, 

 however, I got out of their tracks, but still 

 followed the two sheep. These presently led 

 me into very rocky ground, in which I could 

 only make very slow progress, as all the deep 

 holes between the rocks were hidden by snow, 

 so I resolved to leave them and look for the 

 caribou. I was making a circle in order to cut 

 their spoor again, when I crossed some tracks 

 that seemed absolutely fresh, as the soft snow 

 had plainly only just been disturbed. 



These caribou tracks were those of three 

 animals, one of them a very large bull. They 

 were heading straight back towards camp, and 

 I had not followed them a mile before I suddenly 

 sighted the hornless head of a cow caribou 

 looking at me from behind an undulation in 

 the ground. She at once made off, and I 

 followed as fast as I could in the snow, and on 

 getting on to a higher piece of ground came in 

 full view of a magnificent bull. 



When I first saw him he was standing 

 broadside to me and looked as grand an 



