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and the weather is not too hot, they can carry 

 heavier loads in proportion to their weight 

 than any other four-footed animal. Pointing to 

 one of his dogs, a half-bred husky, with very 



likely a strain of wolf in it, Mr. P , the 



ex-North-west Mounted policeman, assured me 

 that it could carry its own weight — sixty pounds 

 — day after day as long as the weather was not 

 hot. 



In the course of conversation, Mr. P 



told me that although he had come across and 

 shot a few grizzly bears, he had never had any 

 sort of an adventure with one of these animals. 

 He had, however, once been severely bitten in 

 the leg and laid up for three weeks by a lynx 

 which he had caught in a steel trap, and 

 which he was endeavouring to kill with a 

 stick. 



The day before we reached their cabin our 

 friends the trappers had shot a fine bull moose, 

 and secured a very welcome supply of fresh 

 meat, as they had seen no game on their way 

 up the river from Selkirk, and had had to feed 

 their dogs on rice when they were imable to 



