330 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 



broke from their enclosure and escaped into the surround- 

 ing country. After much difficulty eleven of the animals 

 were rounded up, but, at the end of the simmier of 1913, 

 only ten remained in the enclosure at Fort Smith. Owing 

 to deaths from unknown causes, only four deer remained in 

 the spring of 1914. Finally only two were left, and they 

 were transported to an island in Great Slave Lake. The 

 last survivor died in the autmnn of 1916. 



