128 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
as he could make out from careful inquiry, never been seen 
many miles north of these low points. 
The attitude of the Indians towards the buffalo is indi- 
cated by the evidence of Inspector H. A. Conroy of the De- 
partment of Indian Affairs before the Senate committee 
in 1907. He says: ‘‘You do not require to enforce the law 
to protect the buffalo. The Indians will not kill them. 
They want to preserve them as much as any one else. The 
Indians think if the buffalo are gone they will have nothing 
left. The Wood Crees are benefiting by the errors of the 
Indians south of the Saskatchewan. They know that the 
buffalo are all gone south of them and they want to protect 
the wood buffalo.” Sergeant R. W. MacLeod of the 
R.N. W. M. Police, reporting on his long patrol from 
Fort Vermilion to the mouth of the Hay River on Great 
Slave Lake, in December, 1910, corroborated Mr. Conroy’s 
statement. He states: ‘‘The Indians I met were familiar 
with the regulations for the protection of the buffalo and 
protested strongly against a white man being permitted to 
kill any. The Indians told me the western range of the buf- 
falo is thirty-five to forty miles east of Buffalo Lake and 
there is certainly no feed for them in any part of the coun- 
try I passed over.” 
In 1911 the Department of the Interior appointed Mr. 
G. A. Mulloy to investigate the condition and protection 
of the buffalo herds, and to obtain information in regard to 
them under the supervision of Mr. A. J. Bell, government 
agent at Fort Smith. 
Mr. Mulloy, who resigned in 1913, submitted several re- 
ports, the most comprehensive of which is contained in the 
report of the director of forestry for the year 1914 (Appen- 
dix No. 8, pp. 129-133). This report gives a good account 
of the regions occupied by the buffalo and their habits. In 
a letter of December 2, 1916, Mr. R. H. Campbell, director 
of forestry, under whose jurisdiction the supervision of these 
