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the forest so quietly. That they can be called by glancing 
blows upon the small beeches, in imitation of the buck, we have 
proven in several instances, and at one time quite unintention- 
ally. We were camping upon the upland among the hard 
wood trees (the captain and the crew). The captain stepped 
a little away from the tent to cut a few beech wood stakes, 
and had been chopping but a short time when he heard a 
caribou give a low call, or greeting, but seeing nothing so 
near as the sound appeared to be, he resumed the chopping, 
when again the greeting was heard, too plainly not to be 
noticed. Looking, he saw a female caribou walking leisurly 
toward him two or three steps at a time, stopping within 
three or four rods of him, looking earnestly at him, probably 
astonished at his appearance, perhaps wondering what kind 
of a buck she had found. She stood quietly, until the 
captain spoke to the crew in the tent, saying, ‘‘bring the 
rifle,’ when she walked back a few steps, stopped, turned 
about once more, speaking to him in caribou dialect, at the 
same time taking another step or two toward him, then 
around a small thicket of evergreens, again approaching to 
within five or six rods as if to satisfy fully her great curiosity. 
Seeing the second party creeping from the tent toward her, 
she concluded three was not company and trotted away several 
rods, turned facing us, looked an instant for the last time 
toward our whereabouts, and disappeared. <A little breeze 
was ever blowing from her to us during this time, but had it 
been from opposite directions we could not have told you this. 
We remember several instances when the caribou have 
come walking or trotting directly to us, or to within a few 
rods of where we were standing, and stop quickly in their 
tracks, then, as if greatly surprised, or a little frightened at 
