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however, were so different in character that they 

 might very easily have been supposed to belong 

 to two distinct races of caribou, and curiously 

 enough Louis made this assertion, declaring 

 that the large heavy bull was a woodland 

 caribou, whilst the smaller, lighter horned 

 animal belonged to the barren ground species. 



Unfortunately owing to the subsequent 

 rapid freezing up of the country, and the 

 necessity of getting back to the Yukon 

 without delay, I was not able to get the 

 head of the smaller caribou out of the 

 mountains and bring it back to England 

 with me. 



When sufficiently large series of caribou 

 heads from every part of Alaska and the Yukon 

 territory have been examined and compared, 

 I should think that such local races, as Stone's 

 and Osborne's caribou, will be found to grade 

 one into another, and also to be inseparable 

 from the mountain caribou of British Columbia. 



With the exception of the three caribou which 



I met with on September 10th, no others were 



seen either by Mr. Sheldon or myself, but on 



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