MOOSE AND CARIBOU 



an hour's start of the outfit, traveled on horse- 

 back over the barrens above timberline a little 

 ways above the trail taken by the packs, hoping 

 to be able to sight some caribou on the way. 

 After going a few miles and when a short dis- 

 tance above timberline, we espied what we took 

 to be a caribou cow and calf at a distance of five 

 hundred yards. Our heads only showed above 

 the ridge-line as we advanced, so they did not 

 see us. Dismounting, we put the glasses on 

 them. Unfortunately we were facing the sun, 

 and therefore they appeared as black animals 

 without horns, with clear outlines but no detail. 

 As our thoughts were of caribou it didn't enter 

 our minds that they were anything else — failing 

 to consider that even the cow caribou had horns 

 — so, not desiring any cow. or younger specimens 

 of that species, we boldly walked out in full view. 

 They then saw us and trotted away. As they 

 didn't look just right, I used the glasses again. 

 As soon as my eye fell on them now I saw they 

 were moose. They were going fast by this time 

 and away from our traveling direction, but to- 

 ward the trail of the packs, so, concluding that 

 some member of the outfit might pick them up, 

 we didn't attempt to follow them. Besides, it 

 would have been useless in their frightened state. 

 We resumed our travel toward the Dalton 

 cabin, on the Kletsan, stopping to "bile the 

 kettle" en route. In his daily hunting trips on 

 this expedition Harry had been following this 



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