CHAPTER IX. 



SPORT WITH BIG GAME IN THE 



MOUNTAINS OF THE 



MACMILLAN. 



On tlie following morning I took my men to 

 where I had killed the caribou the day before. 

 We found a regular flock of ravens — there must 

 have been at least thirty or forty of them — at 

 the carcase. 



As I had opened and disembowelled the 

 carcase, and also cut the skin open all along 

 the back, in order to get at the fat over the 

 loins, the ravens had entered upon their feast 

 under the most favourable conditions, and haa 

 not only entirely removed the great masses of 

 fat round the kidneys but had burrowed in 



