2 6o HUNTERS OF THE GREAT NORTH 



danger signal which they understand. That is the main 

 reason why I always hunt alone. If there are two 

 hunters to go out from the same camp on any given 

 day, they should go in opposite directions. That way 

 they double the chance of finding game and each has a 

 fair chance of getting the animals he does find. 



On our journeys we never kill more animals than we 

 need, but in this case we needed the whole twenty-one. 

 The Eskimo and I went down to the ice with my hunting 

 bag filled with the tongues of the .-caxihou. This gave 

 the sick men a more appetizing meat than they had had 

 for a long time. The dogs had to wait for their food 

 until we were able to move camp right to where the 

 caribou had been shot. Although they were thin and 

 tired, they became so excited with the smell of the fresh 

 killed caribou which they got from our clothes that they 

 pulled towards shore as if they had been well fed and 

 of full strength. 



On the hill from which I had shot the caribou we 

 pitched camp. During the next two weeks the invalids 

 rapidly gained in health. We called the place Camp 

 Hospital. Few hospitals have ever been more successful. 

 When we left it three weeks later, the dogs were fat and 

 the men well. 



