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CHAPTER V. 



CABIBOO. 



ALTHOUGH occasionally the cariboo is killed within the 

 limits of the United States, they have ever there been 

 deemed scarce, doubtless from it being the extreme 

 southern limit of their habitat, nor can they be found in 

 such numbers as to justify the sportsman going in their 

 pursuit till the northern shores of the great St. Lawrence 

 are gained ; from whence, as the traveller advances into 

 higher latitudes, daily indications of their presence will 

 become more abundant. How far to the north they may 

 be found is doubtful, although it is beyond a question that 

 their range extends to the Arctic circle. The almost 

 unknown interior of the vast island of Newfoundland 

 abounds with them, also the interior of Labrador; while 

 in the uninhabited waste between Hudson's Bay and 

 Alaska, late Russian America, their numbers are so great 

 as to form the staple article of food of the inhabitants 

 of these dismal lands. 



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