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sippi River and in the extreme north of Idaho. The 

 barren-ground caribou does not generally range so 

 far south as the international boundary. In Canada 

 caribou are much more distributed. They are very 

 plentiful in Newfoundland, scarce in Nova Scotia, 

 more numerous in New Brunswick, abundant in Que- 

 bec and Labrador, and fair numbers of them haunt 

 the wilds of northern Ontario (especially the north 

 shore of Lake Superior) and portions of Manitoba. 

 In British Columbia they abound among the moun- 

 tains, and not infrequently great herds are seen 

 defiling from some canon or moving down some 

 mountain side in Indian file, and looking at a dis- 

 tance like a pack-train. 



The best caribou shooting may be had in New- 

 foundland and British Columbia, but Quebec and 

 north Ontario yet offer good sport to those who 

 like roughing it. 



During one winter I was temporarily located at a 

 point on the magnificent north shore of Lake Supe- 

 rior, my companion being a half-breed hunter who 

 bore a resonant Indian title too long for insertion in 

 these pages. When he wanted to travel light, he 

 bore the name of "Jo," which will answer for the 

 present. It was cold up there in the icy breath of 

 the Great Inland Sea, but we were snug enough in 

 an old railway construction log camp, and had fairly 

 good sport with grouse, filling up time attending 

 to Jo's lines of traps. Between Superior and the 

 " height of land " is a perfect network of lakes and 

 streams, large and small ; the country is very rough 

 and rocky, varied with great barrens, muskegs, and 

 beaver-meadows. Vast portions are densely forested, 



