CHAPTER XI 



THE FIRST LIVE MUSK-OX EVER SEEN IN NEW 

 YORK 



CAPTAIN BODFISH OF THE GOOD SHIP BELUGA THE FIRST LIVE 

 MUSK-OX EVER SEEN IN NEW YORK FATE OF ITS COM- 

 PANIONS ITS TRAVELS FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK 

 CITY THE FIRST SKETCHES FROM A LIVE MUSK-OX EVER 

 PUBLISHED LOCKED UP IN THE CAGE WITH THE MUSK-OX 

 DESCRIPTION OF " OLIVE" AND THE PLACE WHERE SHE 

 BELONGS JIBES OF THE CROWD ADAPTED BY NATURE TO 

 COLD COUNTRIES THE MUSK-OX SHOULD BE PROTECTED 

 AND DOMESTICATED " BUFFALO" JONES* HEROIC EF- 

 FORTS WOLVES SLAY HIS DOG AND INDIANS SLAY HIS 

 CALVES. 



All Arctic travelers and natives know Captain 

 Bodfish of the good ship Beluga, so also do those 

 New Yorkers who were fortunate enough to be 

 counted among the members of the old Camp 

 Fire Club. 



Captain Bodfish is 



A VETERAN WHALER 



and spends his winters on the northwest coast of 

 the American continent with his ship frozen in the 

 ice in some protected cove well known to the ad- 

 venturous sailor. 



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