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He had stood up fully fifteen minutes, and had my cam- 

 era been at hand, instead of in the sledge several miles 

 away, I could have secured a splendid photograph. But 

 one cannot carry both rifle and camera and chase musk- 

 oxen, and I wished to finish with my rifle before I began 

 with my camera. 



Afterwards, when going back to the sledges, it occurred 

 to me that if the bull had charged my situation would 



WILLOW BASKET USED BY INDIANS BEFORE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY TOOK 

 IN COPPER KETTLES 



have been rather uncomfortable, because they do not low- 

 er their heads in running, and it would have been no easy 

 matter to get in a shot over his head into the shoulder, 

 while to put a bullet fairly into that crevice, even assum- 

 ing it to be fatal, would have been very difficult. 



We skinned those two bulls, and went back to the 

 sledges, where, rolled in our robes, we lay until ten o'clock, 



