IV 

 METHOD OF HUNTING 



AMONG the Indians that live south and west 

 of the Barren Grounds (no Indian lives in the 

 Barren Grounds), the method of hunting the 

 musk-ox is practically the same, and, as I have 

 shown in the early part of this paper, it is be- 

 cause the Indians lack high hunting skill and 

 because their dogs are neither trained nor coura- 

 geous that bigger kills are not made. White 

 hunters and trained dogs could practically wipe 

 out every herd of musk-oxen they encountered ; 

 for while it is true that musk-oxen give you a long 

 run once you have sighted them, yet when you get 

 up to them, when the dogs have brought them to 

 bay, it is almost like shooting cattle in a corral. 

 There is always a long run. I think I never had 

 less than three miles, and in the first hunt which 

 I have described, I must have run nine or ten. 

 But, as I say, when you get up to them it is easy, 

 for they will stand to the dogs so long as the 



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