270 HUNTING CAMPS. 



During the following day, when we were all walking 

 on the trail, Ed spied a caribou stag a long way in 

 front. This animal Ross and he stalked successfully to 

 within long range, when Ross killed it a nice head of 

 twenty-seven points. 



With that shot our trip concluded. In the course of 

 it we had secured seven caribou and one moose ; the 

 caribou, and especially Howard's, were much above the 

 average. 



The Canadian woodland caribou is, as I have said, 

 considerably larger than its Newfoundland relative. 

 The difference is especially noticeable in the hoofs, and 

 the mainland animal weighs at least a sixth as much 

 again as its congener. The horns are very distinctive, 

 being narrow in spread, heavy and carrying fewer 

 points ; the bays also are set very close to the brows. 

 It is however, always dangerous to dogmatise about 

 horn-growth in caribou, and I can only ask my readers 

 to draw their own conclusions from a comparison of 

 the horns of the two races figured in this book. 



