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A Musk -Ox Hunt. 



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ON THE TRAIL. 



The calves are born about the month of May, in this portion of 

 the country, and have the same dirty-brown, awkward, ugly-looking 

 appearance as the buffalo calves of the plains. They can be readily 

 captured alive by the Eskimo dogs, if the hunters are near enough to 

 prevent their being immediately killed by these ravenous animals; but 

 in these inhospitable regions, it is impossible to furnish them with 

 proper nourishment to sustain life until they can be transferred to 

 a vessel, which, moreover, can only escape from here during the 

 autumn months ; consequently, there are no cases on record, I 

 believe, where these most curious animals have been exhibited in the 



