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three days' journey there and back. The bull was 

 fourteen years old. The antlers are thirty-two inches 

 long from the base of skull to the tips, and have 

 thirteen points on each side. The taxidermist to 

 whom the head was sent said it was the finest he had 

 seen and the largest, from that locality, of which he 

 had any record. 



On the night of our caribou victory, although very 

 tired and badly used up with our frightfully hard 

 walk, neither the guide nor myself slept much. The 

 big animal would haunt our sleep. We could see him 

 almost every minute of the night ; and even now the 

 memory of the scene is fresh and vivid in my mind 

 and doubtless will be for many a moon to come. 



