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always found either lying down or feeding 

 quietly on one spot. 



Although we saw several caribou stags in the 

 course of the afternoon, none of them carried 

 ver}^ good horns, so I let them all pass un- 

 molested. 



On the following day the weather was fairly 

 fine except for occasional showers of sleet and 

 snow. In the morning we climbed some trees 

 on the top of a high wooded ridge, but could 

 see no sign of open ground, notliing but dense 

 forest as far as the eye could reach. I resolved, 

 therefore, to carry the caribou skin and head 

 back to our camp on the river in the afternoon, 

 and then return to the little lake where we had 

 seen the six herds of caribou feeding at one 

 time, in the hope of being able to find a stag 

 with a good head amongst them. 



This trip, however, met with no success, for 

 the weather once more turned so bad that all 

 the caribou left the o^Dcn groimd and took 

 shelter in the woods, which were so thick that 

 we could never see them there before they heard 

 us. Whilst making our way up the river on 



