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Our North Land. 



made attractive by curlew and ptarmigan stews while in the Strait 

 and they never failed to meet with keen appetites. 



Wild geese — the ordinary Canada wild goose, I think — are 

 numerous everywhere in the Hudson's Bay region. While we were 

 at York, an Indian shot nearly one hundred in a single day, within 

 six miles of that place. They were fat, and, to my taste, equal to^any 



WILD DUCKS (EIDER, ETC.). 



game we secured. There are various other kinds of geese, aside 

 from the ordinary Canada specimen, but we met with only a few 

 and never more than half a dozen together. These are smaller, and 

 not so desirable for the table, and afford less sport in shooting, 



WILD DUCK8 ("HOWDENS"). 



as they will often come down within ten or fifteen yards of you, 

 and stand looking in great astonishment until blown to pieces, as 

 members of our party sometimes treated them. 



Of wild ducks we met with so many varieties that I cannot 



