W'c then c-k'vated his hfud and shouUk-rs upon some skids, 

 Unit, were in the road, so as to keep liini in i;()*)d shape. 

 and then tramped l)ack to our camj), a walk of fully six 

 miles. Next day, our three .guides, my son and I went 

 back, takinj;- a camera with us, and, althouL;h the morn- 

 ing was rainy and S(iually, we obtained a fairly good 

 picture of him. As he was frozen ])retty stifiF, the men 

 raised him up on his feet, and, fastening a rope from each 

 antler to a couple of trees on both sides of the road (so 

 as to hold his head up, and thus .steady the whole car- 

 cass), the photographer (my young son ) was enabled to 

 take him in a standing position. 



The guides skinned him, taking his head off 

 \niskinned. The next day, in order to incvn" no risk of 

 having the head spoiled by the wet weather or careless 

 skimiing, I sent a guide witli it to (Greenville ( a three 

 days' journey there and back. The bull was fourteen 

 years old. The antlers are thirty -two inches long from 

 the base of skull to the tips, and have thirteen points 

 on each side. 



The taxidermist to whom the head was sent said it 

 was the fmest he luul ever seen and the largest he had 

 any record of. On the night of the fifth of October, 

 although very tired and badly used up with our fright- 

 full v hard walk, neither the guide . I'.arnesj nor I slept 

 much. The caribou would hamit our >lee]v We could 

 see him almost every minute of the night and even now 

 the memory of the scene is as fresh and \i\id as it was 

 on that day. and 1 am sure will be for many moons to 

 come. 



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