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I noticed that when swimming past ns a few 

 inches of the whole length of their bodies was 

 above the water, whilst all their short tails 

 were held straight up in the air like tiny sails, 

 the snow-white underside being fully exposed 

 to view. 



During the following night heavj^ rain set in, 

 which turned to snow before morning, the storm 

 lasting till after mid-day. When the cook 

 brought me my early breakfast before daylight, 

 as usual, he informed me that the meat of the 

 fawn on which we had been living for the past 

 three days was nearly finished, and asked me 

 to try and shoot a deer near camp for the larder. 

 Not long afterwards, on looking out of my tent 

 through the fast falling snowflakes I saw two 

 caribou does standing just on the side of the 

 railway and within fifty yards of our encamp- 

 ment. 



I at once got hold of my rifle and, 

 pushing in a cartridge, looked out again. The 

 two does had seen me when I first left the tent, 

 and had trotted a short distance away, but 

 were now again standing less than a hundred 



