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is very little hunting done in this district they believe this to have 

 been the same wolf. 



T. Anderson believes that a wolf would haul in the set lines 

 to get the fish, as described by B. R. Ross. It is well known that 

 none but mad wolves attack man. These will even run into 

 a tent. Mange is common at times. 



Wolves were very common on Hay River last December. An 

 Indian travelling there had a puppy dog trotting behind his 

 sleigh; a wolf dashed out of the woods to seize the pup. The 

 Indian fired, hitting the wolf somewhere in the head, but it ran 

 off. The Indians went to see and found the wolf's teeth on the 

 ice; he had hit it in the mouth blowing out all its teeth. T. 

 Anderson believed this Indian to be telling the truth. 



On the beach of the Athabaska River above Fort McMurray, 

 October 19, I found many wolf tracks, one of immense size, 5J 

 x 5 wide; another smaller one, a female, by the water mark. 

 There were also many moose tracks, and the wolves had killed 

 a moose as their dung was full of moose hair. Not less than 

 five wolves were in this band. 



On October 30, about twenty miles below Athabaska Landing 

 on the River, I saw a remarkable wolf track. It had lost the 

 two inner toes of left front foot, and the hind-feet pads were so 

 faint as to be lost at times, though the toes were deeply impressed 

 in the mud. I took this to mean he was starved to a skeleton, 

 probably had been in a trap. 



The traders tell me that wolves are commonly tamed and used 

 for sleigh dogs, but play out sooner than the regular train dog. 



Canis occidentalis albus Sabine. Barren-Ground Wolf. 



The wolf of the Barren Grounds is referred to this form. We 

 saw tracks on the shore of Artillery Lake, on Casba Lake, and 

 on the north shore of Aylmer Lake. We once heard the howling 

 of wolves on Clinton-Golden Lake, near its eastern end on Au- 

 gust 10. At our camp at Sandhill Bay, Aylmer Lake, a large 

 wolf was shot by William Loutit near the tent on the morning 

 of August 22. Its length was about 5J feet; the height at the 



