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On the following day I took Louis and 

 Coghlan back with me to the dead caribou. 

 The big bull was a very large heavy animal. 

 I made his standing height at the shoulder with 

 my tape line to be four feet six inches. His 

 body was very massive and heavy and as broad 

 across the withers as that of a pony. 



Coghlan, wdio had had much experience in 

 weighing dead caribou at Dawson, said he 

 judged that the carcase would weigh four 

 hundred and fifty pounds dressed, that is, 

 cleaned, and without legs, head and skin. At 

 any rate he was a much bigger animal than 

 any of the caribou I had shot in Newfoimdland 

 — as the size of his head is sufficient to prove 

 — and alive I am sure he must have weighed 

 over six hundred pounds. He was excessively 

 fat and his meat most excellent. 



The head of the younger bull was of quite a 

 different character to that of the old one, as the 

 antlers were not at all palmated at the tops. 



I feel sure that the differences between the 

 two heads were due to the fact that one of them 

 was much younger than the other. The horns, 



