330 . CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
broke from their enclosure and escaped into the surround- 
ing country. After much difficulty eleven of the animals 
were rounded up, but, at the end of the summer of 1913, 
only ten remained in the enclosure at Fort Smith. Owing 
to deaths from unknown causes, only four deer remained in 
the spring of 1914. Finally only two were left, and they 
were transported to an island in Great Slave Lake. The 
last survivor died in the autumn of 1916. 
