CHAPTER VII. 



A SLIGHT REFECTION AMOUNT OF FOOD REQUISITE IN THE NORTH-WEST THE 

 PARTY START TO BRING IN THE MEAT THE CARCAJOU JAKE ENRAGED BY 

 THE WOLVERINE JAKE'S RUSE TO TRAP THE WOLVERINE MAKING A CAMP 

 FIRE CUNNING OF THE WOLVERINE A TRAP SET VISIT TO THE TRAP 

 THE CARCAJOU CAUGHT DEATH OF THE CARCAJOU CARIBOOA FIRE At 

 THE CAMP THE CANOE BURNED THE YOUNG MEN'S DEJECTION A RAFT. 



ON the morning following the preceding adventure, the 

 sun had scarcely tipped the tree-tops on the eastern 

 bank of the Athabasca with his rosy beams when the 

 hunters left camp in order to bring in the meat. Old 

 Jake, indeed, found time before starting for a grillade 

 of the juicy tongues of the bison ; in which succulent 

 repast Gaultier and Pierre were not loath to join. This, 

 however, was only intended as a stay to their appetites, 

 most of these delicious dainties having been consumed 

 at their supper on the previous night. 



The amount of food which constant life in the open 

 air renders necessary is prodigious ; and, indeed, in the 

 countries of which our narrative treats the chief diffi- 

 culty consists in supplying the demands of appetite 

 with an adequate quantity of viands. Our hunters 

 therefore had little difficulty in disposing at one meal 

 of the greater part of the three colossal tongues, leaving 



