Dog Sledging in the North 



seen, and in a very few days the country again 

 contained numbers of them. 



One morning, shortly after the first caribou 

 had been seen, Keller, who had been quite 

 sick, was unable longer to tolerate the smoke 

 of the tepee, and took a little walk with 

 his rifle close around our camp. He soon 

 came upon the fresh trail of a bunch of cari- 

 bou. He had followed it only a few hundred 

 yards when he saw one of the caribou lying 

 down. He is a dead shot, the best I have 

 ever known in my life. He carefully steadied 

 himself, raised his .45-90 Winchester, aimed at 

 the caribou lying down and fired. When he 

 went up to look at it, to his amazement, 

 he came across another dead caribou, between 

 the spot where he had fired and the one at 

 which he had aimed. It had been shot straight 

 through the temples. On going further, he 

 found the other caribou shot exactly where he 

 had aimed at it, some twenty yards distant 

 from the first one. The only possible way in 

 which he could explain this remarkable occur- 

 rence is that the caribou which had been shot 

 through the head, and which he had not seen, 

 had risen out of its bed just as he was in the 

 act of firing and interposed his head directly 



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