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could keep track of the Indians on their vast barren hunt- 

 ing-grounds. 



These are the two animals, then, that find a living in the 

 desolate wastes of the Barren Grounds, and the musk-ox 

 is the only one that makes it his home from year's end to 

 year's end. There are 

 wolves and wolverines 

 and arctic hares and arc- 

 tic foxes to be found on 

 the southern half of the 

 Barren Grounds in win- 

 ter, but I saw none of 

 them after we had gone 

 five or six days into the 

 Barren Grounds. 



The arctic fox is about 

 half the size of a good 

 big red fox, and the arc- 

 tic hare is twice the size 

 of the ordinary " rabbit" 

 (so called, and incorrect- 

 ly, for "rabbits" are real- 

 ly hares). The wolves 

 are large. I saw only 

 black ones and not very 



many of those. There is a Barren Ground bear, so called, 

 that is exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute as coming 

 from the Barren Grounds, but I believe it is wrongly ac- 

 credited to this particular section. 



A bear is found on the Anderson River, which is near 

 the Rocky Mountains, that corresponds to this one, and 

 it is possible it may make out into the Barrens in the 

 summer-time, but I doubt if it is more than a visitor, and 

 am convinced its real home is much nearer the mountains. 



UNGAVA SHOE, 



Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



3 feet long 



