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THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES 



The native destruction is less now than formerly and 

 never did make any perceptible difference. 



Finally, the matter has by no means escaped the at- 

 tention of the wide-awake Canadian government rep- 

 resented by the Minister of the Interior and the Royal 

 North-west Mounted Police. It could not be in better 

 hands; and there is no reason to fear in any degree 

 a repetition of the Buffalo slaughter that disgraced 

 the plains of the United States. 



Barren-Ground Caribou 



Old Fort Reliance in background, September 13. 1907 



