272 TWO DIANAS IN ALASKA 



variety. It must have been a patriarch porcupine, 

 and the oldest inhabitant of the forest. None of us 

 liked it at all, and I suspect that the travellers who 

 say that the flesh of this creature is so very appetizing 

 have really eaten something else instead and didn't 

 know it, or, most probable of all, were so hungry as 

 not to care. 



