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more southern latitudes, " White man make big fire, 

 go 'way off and freeze ; Indian make little fire, stay 

 close by and keep warm," for they made a roaring 

 fire and kept it supplied with wood all night. 



The Indians did little but eat and smoke while in 

 camp. Even in the night they toasted pieces of 

 meat before the fire and ate them. It was so cold 

 next morning that everything in the woods was 

 popping and cracking. Maypuck took Dyche and, 

 with the thermometer marking twenty-eight de- 

 grees below zero, started after moose. The chief 

 moved like a cat through the jungle of brush and 

 fallen timber, but walked rapidly when he reached 

 open places. After travelling in this way about 

 three miles the Chippewa suddenly stopped and threw 

 up his hand as a warning to his companion. Dyche 

 stood perfectly still while the Indian slipped cau- 

 tiously forwards. He worked forwards carefully and 

 at last beckoned Dyche to come on. The trail of a 

 band of moose was seen in the snow, and after exam- 

 ining the tracks closely for several minutes and look- 

 ing at the tops of the willows which had been nipped 

 off, the chief decided that the animals had passed 

 along but a short time previously and had gone north. 



Dyche now learned something in the way of hunt- 

 ing which surprised him, but which he utilised many 

 times later on in his hunting expeditions. Instead 

 of following in the tracks of the moose, the chief 

 walked fully two hundred yards off to one side and 

 then followed along on a line parallel with the trail 

 of the animals. He moved very cautiously but very 

 rapidly for about a mile and then crawled towards a 

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