17-4 RECENT HUXTIXG TRIPS. 



the long, dark, sunless months of a siib-arctic 

 winter. Life on board the " Fram," or the 

 " Discoveiy," with books to read and plenty of 

 cheerful companionship, must have been quite 

 blissful by comparison. 



Later on when returning to the Yukon we 

 met Messrs. Barr and Crosby, and they seemed 

 to be most excellent fellows, full of intelligence, 

 and ready to give any information or assistance 

 in their power to their fellow men. 



A few miles away from the cabin near the 

 mouth of Barr Creek, I found a very line moose 

 skull and horns with very broad blades and 

 long perfect points. Mr. Barr afterwards told 

 me that the bull, to which this fine head 

 originally belonged, had been held at bay one 

 winter's night by one of his dogs, until he 

 came up, and after a great deal of trouble, at 

 last managed to shoot it in the dark. 



The dog, which he still had when I met him, 

 was a fine wolf-like husky dog, and Mr. Barr 

 told me that he could rely absolutely upon it to 

 follow up the fresh trail of any bull moose, and 

 bring it to bay. 



