50 The Musk-ox 



meat and tea are the sole articles of food. 

 Coffee, by the way, is a luxury to be found only 

 occasionally on the table of a Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany post factor. 



There is so much to be told, if one is to 

 give an adequate idea of what hunting the musk- 

 ox implies, that I find it somewhat difficult, 

 without going to considerable length, to cover the 

 entire field. I suppose it is because the musk-ox 

 is the most inaccessible animal in the whole wide 

 world, that there is so much curiosity concerning 

 the conditions of hunting it, and so much interest 

 in the recital of one's experience. From time to 

 time a great many letters come to me filled with 

 questions, and I am and shall always be happy 

 to add in personal letters any data I may have 

 overlooked here. I am trying, however, to make 

 this chapter thoroughly practical and intelligible 

 to those with any thought of ever seeking the 

 musk-ox in this region. The easiest way, as I 

 have said, is to go by Hudson's Bay Trading 

 boat, which leaves Athabasca Landing as soon 

 as the ice breaks, down to Resolution. If you 

 have arranged beforehand by letter with the 

 factor at Resolution, you will arrive there in 

 time to make a summer hunt into the Barren 



