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FOREST LIFE IN ACADIE. 



Rocky Mountains, passes into the American tenitoiy 

 of Alaska. 



Accordino; to ]\Ir. Lord'"' it inhabits the hidi rido;es of 

 the Cascade ^Mountains, the Galton range and western 

 slope of the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia. 



In evidence of the transmission of the cariboo into 

 Eastern Asia, it is stated by Dr. Godman that it crosses 

 from Behring's strait to Kanischatka by the Aleutian 

 islands. 



Closely associated witli man in a state of semi- 

 domestication in Siberia and Lapland, the wild rein-deer 

 also largely contributes to the support of the various 

 nomadic tribes of these countries, by whom it is 

 slaughtered on the paths of its two great annual migra- 

 tions. In America likewise, though no attempt lins 

 been made to convert the cariboo into a betist of burden, 

 its flesh is the mainstay of many wandering Indian 

 tribes who inhabit the subarctic forest region from 

 Labrador to the northern spurs of the Rocky Mountains, 

 and its skin their principal resource for clothing. In its 

 distribution across the Anu'rican continent, indicated 

 al)ove, it is pursued in the chase by tlie ]\Iontagnais and 

 Nasquapee Indians of Labrador, the Crees and Chipe- 

 wyans of Hudson's Bay, and the Dog-ribs and other tribes 

 of the Mackenzie Valley. To the Micrnacs, ]\Ialicites and 

 others, south of the St. Lawrence, it is no longer indis- 

 pensable as a staple of subsistence ; they are now 

 intimately associated with the civilisation of the wliite 

 man, who completely possesses their hunting-grounds, 

 and with whose mode of life tliey partially comply ; but 

 to the wilder races designated above, its gradual dis- 

 * The Naturalist in British Colnmliia. 



