10 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



caribou and wild sheep, are inexorably barred 

 out, the game is by -no means being preserved. 



The Indians, now no longer armed only with 

 the archaic weapons of their forefathers, but 

 with Winchester rifles of the latest pattern, 

 kill what they will, without any restraint, and 

 find a market at the mining camps for all the 

 meat they can bring in ; whilst white meat 

 hunters are equally destructive. Prospectors 

 and trappers, though they do not often destroy 

 game unnecessarily, are each and every one of 

 them more harmful to the wild fauna of the 

 country than the average sportsman, because 

 they kill whatever comes first to hand, whilst 

 the latter seldom shoots anything but old 

 males, the elimination of which does not reduce 

 the power of increase of a species. 



One often reads some verv caustic criticisms 

 concerning the selfishness, and thoughtless 

 savagery of the head-hunting sportsman, and 

 I admit that it is quite arguable that the Indian 

 hunter or white prospector or trapper who 

 shoots a lot of female moose, caribou or wild 

 sheep, in order to provide himself with a supply 



