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Pike concludes his account by expressing the belief that the 
herds of buffalo could not have surpassed in size “‘la foule”’ 
of the caribou. 
J. B. Tyrrell has described an enormous herd of caribou, 
consisting of several thousand animals—males, females, and 
fawns—which he saw on July 30, 1893, at Carey Lake, where 
he obtained what are undoubtedly the best photographs 
hitherto taken of this caribou, two of which are reproduced 
herewith. He describes ‘“‘many great bands literally cover- 
ing the country over wide areas. The valleys and hill- 
sides for miles appeared to be moving masses of caribou. 
To estimate their numbers would be impossible. They 
could only be reckoned in acres or square miles.” He 
found, as Pike also found, that when they occur in such 
enormous numbers they are quite tame. 
The magnitude of the migration, both as regards numbers 
involved and extent of area, has led many to assume that 
all the caribou migrate. But apparently this is not so, as 
the observations of Hanbury* and others conclusively prove. 
Large numbers remain in the north throughout the year. 
Hanbury shot caribou along the west coast of Hudson Bay 
and the coasts of Chesterfield Inlet during the winter, and 
caribou were found on the Arctic coast during the winter 
months. These non-migrating animals merely wander 
about. 
Another point of interest is that, while their migratory 
movements are very regular in point of time, the routes 
they take are not always the same, and they travel gener- 
ally in a northerly or southerly direction. Their course 
cannot be predicted with any degree of certainty. They 
seldom follow the same course in two consecutive years. 
The Indians, such as the Yellow-knives and Dog-ribs, who 
are dependent upon the caribou to so great an extent for 
* See ‘Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada,” by David T. Han- 
bury, pp. 120 et seg. 
