CHAPTER VI. 



CARIBOO HUNTING. j 



The caril)oo of the British provinces is only to 1)0 

 approached by tlic sportsman with the assistance of a ';, 



regular Indian hunter. In old times tlic Indians pos- ij 



sessed and practised the art of calling the Luck in Sep- ij, 



tember, as they now do the bull moose, the call-note being ' 



a short hoarse bellow ; this art however is lost, and at 

 the present day the animal is shot by stalking or I 



" creeping " as it is locally termed, that is, advancing i 



stealthilyand in the footsteps of the Indian, bearing in mind [ 



the hopelessness of success should sound, sight or scent 

 give warning of approaching (hinger. As with the moose, < 



the latter faculty seems to impress the cai'iboo most with '| 



a feeling of alarm, which is evinced at an almost in- 

 credible distance from the object, and fully accounted for, ; 

 as a general fact, by the size of the nasal cavity, and the • 

 development of the cartilage of the septum. As the > 

 cariboo generally travels and feeds down wind, the 

 wonderful tact of the Indian is indispensal)l(? in a forest , 

 country, where the game caimot be sighted from a dis- ' 

 tance as on the fjelds of Scandinavia, or Scottish hills. ! 

 Of course, however, on the plateaux of Newfoundland ^ 

 and Labrador, and on the large cariboo-plains of Nova j 

 Scotia and New Brunswick, less Indian craft is brought ;| 



