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rise, and presently saw the upper part of the 

 stag's horns. 



I now lay flat down, and creeping noiselessly 

 a few yards further, raised my head very 

 slowly until I could see all six caribou, which 

 were feeding, quite unconscious of danger, not 

 thirty yards away from me. The stag, I now 

 saw, was a comparatively young animal, with 

 horns of about three feet in length, and still in 

 the velvet. 



I lay watching these caribou until they had 

 fed away to a distance of fifty or sixty yards 

 from me. Then, not caring whether they saw 

 me or not, I sat up, and almost immediately a 

 doe and a fawn came feeding back towards 

 me, and were soon followed by the rest. I 

 remained absolutely motionless, but in full view, 

 and the caribou never seemed to notice me at 

 all. 



The doe and fawn passed me first, certainly 

 within eight yards, and I noticed that the 

 former had small horns covered with velvet, 

 and that she was still in her summer coat — very 

 dark brown all over, with no white on the 



