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briskly, and oc(;asionally bi'cakin<^ into a trot. Most 

 probably tlioy had boon startod by I'M'cst of the party 

 in the woods to the southward. (.» !- f them was of a 

 very light eolour — the lightest, 1 think, I ever saw — 

 being of a })ale, tawny hue all over ; the others were, as 

 usunl, dull grey, variegated witli dingy white. S})()i't 

 must have fallen to tlie lot of anyone who had remained 

 concealed in some central thicket on the barren tliis 

 afternoon, from tlie nund)er that must have passed at 

 dillerent times, as appeared by tlmir (racks. Though it 

 was still early in Decendu'r we had onl}'^ as yet seen one 

 buck who retained his horns ; the does still wore theirs. 

 The one I had just killed had an exceedingly neat little 

 pair, which, but for her untimely end, would have graced 

 h(U' until the ensuing March. 



Oil riiturn to camp, I found that my fiicnd had not 

 been so fortunate ; they had not bticn able to discover 

 the wounded cariboo, and had started two herds without 

 jxettinff a shot. This was owing to the frozen state of 



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die snow in the woods. We had determined to exchange 

 Indians next morning ; but, in conse(juence of his not 

 yet having had success, 1 agrei'd to start again with the 

 second hunter, Noel, and leave to my fri(!nd the undis- 

 turbe<l possession of the barrens, my direction being the 

 liuctegun plains, which were distant sonu' eight miles or 

 so to the westward. Noel, of course, ate until he (rould 

 eat no more t night — in fact, I never saw such 

 gluttony as was displayed by this Indian whenever he 

 got a (thauite. The settler's wife had told me, a few days 

 since, that he; made a common practice of going into one 

 house after :» Mother along the lOad, and at each represent- 

 ing himself as stalling, llis appearance not generally 



