Hunting in Many Lands 



name, we made our way across to the mouth 

 of the Bad Throat River, where there was an 

 old lumber camp, which a great many years 

 ago was the scene of an important conflict be- 

 tween the Hudson Bay Company's men and 

 the men of the Northwest Fur Company, in 

 which quite a number were killed. Here we 

 got another team of dogs, and picked up an- 

 other member for our party in the person of an 

 Englishman, who by choice had drifted into 

 this country and lived there, marrying an In- 

 dian squaw shortly after our return. Unfor- 

 tunately, the good old-fashioned plan of per- 

 forming the marriage ceremony by running 

 together under a blanket had been abolished, 

 so he had to wait until the yearly visit of the 

 priest. This marrying of squaws is of course 

 common among the white men of this region. 



As we had only a few things to get before 

 starting out for the famous caribou country 

 between the head waters of the Hole, the As- 

 kandoga and the Blood Vein rivers, we were 

 not delayed long at this place. The snow was 

 now quite heavy, at least enough so for com- 

 fortable snowshoe traveling, and we made 

 rapid time after leaving the Bad Throat River. 

 In this connection it is to be remarked that 



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