xii ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



Bear-claw marks on tree 44 



The Buffalo herd disappearing in brush 48 



Thomas Anderson, Smith Landing, June 11, 1907 . . 54 



Murdo Mackay, June 9, 1907 54 



The Athabaska Rose or Needle Bloom 76 



Pierre Squirrel, Chief of the Chipewyans 76 



Indian cabin, Fort Smith 88 



Starving squaws looking for the return of the fisher boats . 88 



July camp on the Great Slave Lake 136 



The Nyarling Tessi or Underground River 136 



Sunset on Slave River 144 



Fort Resolution 144 



The Japanese landscape about Great Slave Lake . . . 182 



Dwarf spruce, about four feet high, on edge of the Barren- 

 Grounds 182 



Forcing ice on the Great Slave Lake 186 



The meal at the Lobstick, Pike's Portage 186 



Photographing a Lynx 192 



The Deathbirds, the Storm, and the Wolverine .... 200 



The giants on the edge of the forest 216 



An ancient dwarf about 250 years old. Billy ready for 



action 216 



Tyrrell's Monument at Last Woods 220 



The falls of the Casba River 220 



Spring migration of Caribou 222 



A young buck 224 



