WHOLESOME FOODS. 67 



Saguenay river on the west, Hudson's Bay and 

 Straits on the north, the Atlantic seaboard on 

 the east, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the 

 south, a country as large as England, France 

 and Austria combined, is the home of the Cari- 

 bou or wood deer, who migrate north and south 

 in countless herds spring and autumn, and are 

 followed by bands of roaming Indians continu- 

 ally preying on them. 



As in the case of the pernican, these Nasca- 

 pies, Montagnais, and Cree Indians bring into 

 the posts dried meats, marrow fat and tongues 

 to barter, and oh this the post dwellers live. 



With the Indians of the present day armed 

 with modern rifles, and the great depletion in 

 the calf-crop made by the marauding of wolves, 

 the day cannot be far off that the caribou will 

 be of the past as the buffalo is. 



In their migrations north and south, at cer- 

 tain places well known to the natives, the deer 

 have to cross rivers. Taking the crossings the 

 mob of deer would compact itself so much that 

 the traverse would be black with their bodies. 



The Indians who had been waiting for some 

 days the passing of the herd, would attack them 

 from up and down the river in their canoes, 

 shooting them with arrows, spearing and axing 

 the poor frightened brutes in the water till the 



