The Home of the Wolverene and Beaver. 6 1 



The list of animals whose fur is valuable as 

 an article of commerce, and whose habitat is within 

 the Hudson's Bay Territory, is as follows: — beavers; 

 bears of four kinds, viz., black, brown, white, and 

 grizzly ; badgers ; buffaloes ; deer, both rein and 

 red ; elks, or moose ; fishers ; foxes of six kinds, 

 viz., black, silver, cross, red, white, and blue ; 

 lynxes ; martens ; musquash, or musk rat ; otters ; 

 seals ; wolves and wolverenes. But the Hudson's 

 Bay Company, although their principal trade is in 

 peltry, obtain other valuable articles from the 

 animals and fishes abounding in the territory. For 

 example, feathers of all kinds are carefully preserved, 

 as well as oil from the seal, whale, and sturgeon ; 

 quills, swans' skins, salted fish and cured salmon, 

 all help to fill the coffers of the Company ; not 

 forgetting the "castorcum," or, as it is called by the 

 trappers, " bark-stone," an odoriferous substance 

 secreted in two glandular sacs near the root of the 

 beaver's tail. The latter beautiful little animal, so 

 relentlessly huiiicd down by man that in many 

 parts it has entirely disappeared, is so curious in its 

 habits as to merit a slight description. Doubtless 

 most of my readers have watched the two captives 

 at the Zoological Gardens, and smiled at their flat 

 trowel-like tails. Poor little beasts, they do not 

 «how to advantage as prisoners. To appreciate the 



