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ON SNOW-SHOES TO THE BARREN GROUNDS 



greater difference in the taste of the flesh of the Barren 

 Ground caribou than in that of any other animal, and 

 there is no wild meat that one wearies of so slowly. In 

 the early spring bulls and cows are exceedingly poor, and 

 the flesh is not very nourishing. But in August and Sep- 

 tember they have become fat, and the flavor of the meat is 

 really delicious. After the rutting season the bulls are poor 

 again, and the cows are then usually sought by the Indians. 

 The range of the Barren Ground caribou is from the 6oth 

 degree of latitude to the Arctic Ocean and from Hudson's 

 Bay to the Mackenzie River. This is speaking very gen- 

 erally. As a matter of fact, very few caribou get west of 

 the Coppermine River or Great Bear Lake, and though 



they extend eastward to Hud- 

 son's Bay in great herds, yet 

 only straggling numbers are 

 found so far south as the 6oth 

 degree of latitude. 



Fort Resolution, on Great 

 Slave Lake, which is the best- 

 supplied meat post in the North 

 country, is from four to six 

 days' distance from the most 

 southerly general range of the 

 Barren Ground caribou, though 

 to the eastward a few do get 

 down to the northeast end of 

 Athabasca Lake. Woodland 

 caribou range, generally speak- 

 ing, between the 5oth and 6oth degrees of latitude, al- 

 though they are found to some extent in the extreme 

 western part of British North America and in Alaska. 



By all accounts there has been in recent years a very 

 great decrease in the number of Barren Ground caribou in 



UNGAVA WOMAN'S SHOE, 



Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 20 inches long 



