THE CAKIBOO. 23 



I have seen a large herd, in my youth, of the Lapland 

 Reindeer, which, with their Esquimaux attendants, were 

 exhibited many years ago in London ; previous to a 

 futile attempt at naturalizing them in the Highlands 

 and Western Isles of Scotland; and have a fair general 

 remembrance of the animal. I possess antlers of the 

 Cariboo, which hang in my hall, and which are accu- 

 rately portrayed in the wood-cut; I have handled 

 twenty times the hides of this great deer ; and I have 

 daily opportunities in the office of my friend, "W. T. 

 Porter, of the Spirit of the Times to examine the pre- 

 served heads and legs of even finer specimens than my 

 own. I have also letters, private, and writings pub- 

 lished, of a New Brunswicker, who has killed the Cari- 

 boo fifty times, and had opportunities of seeing the 

 European Reindeer, at the Zoological Gardens in London, 

 long since myself. I can, therefore, form a very fair con- 

 jecture at the identity or non-identity of the species. At 

 least, I can give some particulars of structure, stature, and 

 pelage of the American Cariboo, which will enable oth- 

 ers to judge, who are better posted up than I, in the pecu- 

 liarities of the Lapland Reindeer. And first I will pre- 

 mise that although I have never seen the Cariboo in 

 life, or in his native woods which I trust to do before 

 the snows of the next March shall have melted the 

 wood-cut illustration of this number is so closely made 

 up from measurements of the various parts, heads, ant- 

 lers, legs and hides of the animal, that I believe it to be 



