Hunting in Many Lands 



in the line of fire. The fact of having fresh 

 meat in camp, of course, brought great joy to 

 us all, and especially to the semi-starved dogs. 

 As in the case of killing the first moose, it 

 seemed to have the effect of changing our 

 luck, for we afterward killed a number of cari- 

 bou, although we were not successful in get- 

 ting good heads. 



These caribou are totally different from the 

 moose in the kind of food they live upon and 

 in their general habits. They prefer a differ- 

 ent sort of a country, the two rarely being 

 found together. They spend much of their 

 time in the muskegs, which seem to be charac- 

 teristic of all of that region of the country; but 

 these muskegs are not open, like those on the 

 west side of the lake, being more or less cov- 

 ered with a growth of stubby jack pine, from 

 which usually hangs an abundance of long gray 

 moss. The caribou feed upon this moss, while 

 the moose, on the other hand, are fond of the 

 tender sprouts of the red and gray willow. 

 The caribou, however, are often found on the 

 rocky ridges, where they find good feed on the 

 moss growing upon the rocks. Indeed, they 

 seem to have no settled place of abode, like 

 moose, being probably one of the most rest- 



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