Hunting in Many Lands 



the ground. Their white appearance was sim- 

 ply due to the dense coating of frost which 

 had been produced from the condensation 

 caused by the heat of their bodies. It must 

 not be forgotten, however, that they are as 

 hardy and as well able to withstand this rigor- 

 ous climate as the wolves, from which many of 

 them are directly descended. All of the so- 

 called "huskies" are of this type. 



Altogether things were not very pleasant 

 about this time. Our Christmas Day rations 

 consisted of one small roll each with a little 

 coffee for breakfast, and in the evening each 

 man was given a small piece of rabbit. 



The rabbits in this country were unfortu- 

 nately not as abundant as they were on the 

 opposite side of the lake, where the Indian 

 boy one day went out with one of our rifles to 

 visit his rabbit snares and to shoot rabbits for 

 the dogs. Before long we heard him shoot 

 four times. He came back to camp with eight 

 rabbits, which had certainly been killed with 

 the rifle, none of them having been snared. 



Those of us who were able to hunt at all 

 hunted with the greatest perseverance, but 

 with little success, until finally some one 

 brought in the report that caribou had been 



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