304 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



two French Canadiaus, about thj'ee miles up 

 the river, early in the afternoon. 



These men have cleared about fifty acres of 

 land along the bank of the river of all trees 

 and bush, and grow good crops of potatoes and 

 oats in the light loamy soil. The oats are cut 

 before they are fulh^ ripe, and used as green 

 forage for horses. The potatoes mature and 

 ripen much more quickly in this northern 

 country than in more southerly latitudes, as 

 they get so much more sunlight whilst they 

 are growing. 



We heard from one of the farmers that a 

 party of Selkirk Indians, who had lately been 

 catching salmon a couple of miles further up 

 the river, had quite recently killed four moose 

 near their camp, and that during the spring 

 and sununer a single Indian belonging to 

 another tribe had killed sixteen of these 

 animals — of course, most of them cows and 

 calves — in the country between the lower Pelly 

 and the Stewart River. 



Fortunately for the game of Alaska and the 

 Yukon territorv Indians are not very numerous 



