LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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The big white doe that did so much to prevent my getting 

 pictures of the large herd and the fighting stags . 



Stag following his herd of does that have taken fright 



Alarmed by the scent of man, this herd is making off at good 

 speed ......... 



The very old light-coloured stag with long spindly horns 



A young stag keeping a sharp look-out for does . 



A tragedy of the wilds ....... 



" The pair of fighting stags seemed to be well matched " . 



Stag watching his does which appear to be thinking of running 

 away ......... 



The herd of about 150 Caribou which took alarm 



Swimming ......... 



About to land ......... 



Landed ......... 



Caribou path down the river bank ..... 



Caribou lead through dry bog-land .... 



Where the Caribou leads from many marshes converge at the 

 river bank ........ 



Caribou paths, or leads, through the grassy barrens 



" The whole country looked almost like a perfect fairyland " 



My sole friend and companion, the Canada Jay, having break- 

 fast with me ....... 



The blind from which many photographs were made . 



The blind, the camera, the Caribou, and the author 



" As the stag came within range I shot him with the harmless 

 camera "......... 



" He was scarcely nine yards away " . . . . 



" A large herd, numbering perhaps seventy animals " . 



" A sunlit picture of a perfectly typical line of thirteen Caribou 

 under the most favourable conditions " . 



" Within sixteen or seventeen yards was a real stag, with horns 

 carrying full forty-five points " . 



" My next visitors appeared — a doe and a fawn " 



One of the few cases in which I have seen the stag taking the lead 



A solitary doe crossing shallow river .... 



The day being fine this herd is taking it easy 



This fawn was lying down on the open barren 



The same fawn as the one shown on previous page photo 

 graphed as it got up and started off .... 



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