A SHORT AND EASY WOLF HUNT 315 



tridges loaded for seals with AAAA and SSG 

 shot. Finding the boy was willing to come, too, 

 I gave him the empty rifle to carry, for which I 

 took about twenty more cartridges. As soon as 

 I had everything ready we started off. On reach- 

 ing the river I found his uncle there. He in- 

 formed me that the pack was still very close, as he 

 had just heard them again, but that he believed 

 they were going up the river along the shore. 

 This was on the west bank. The old man refused 

 to come, as he had only a flint lock muzzle loader, 

 H. B. Co. gun. 



I must explain that the west side of the river 

 forms a wooded peninsula of a mile and a quarter 

 long and varying in width from one to two hun- 

 dred yards. On either side of it there is a sandy 

 beach, rising abruptly on the river side, and form- 

 ing a bank eight to ten feet high. 



Jumping into the Indian's canoe we paddled 

 quickly over the river, being only a hundred yards 

 wide. Upon landing on the sand pit I saw that 

 it was indeed covered with the tracks of some very 

 large and some smaller wolves, but there were cer- 

 tainly less than stated. "Muskrat," the In- 

 dian boy was sure, however, that there were fif- 

 teen; his uncle had counted them. While cross- 

 ing the river we had again heard the howls of the 

 wolves, which appeared to be half a mile up the 

 inside bank of the river. I determined to try and 

 head them off, by running up the inside beach of 



