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Generally, though, the hunter still tries to keep in concealment, and the caribou, 

 meeting the women as they run back, return again. I have seen them driven 

 backwards and forwards in this way three or four times before the remainder 

 of the herd broke through the Unes past the archers and galloped away. Small 

 herds of four or five deer are occasionally exterminated, but usually some of them 

 escape, while not infrequently the deer break back past the women at the very 



Fig. 48. A represent at ion of a cariljoii drive, drawn by an Eskimo of Xorthern Alaska 



beginning and never approach the hunters at all. Natives who have only 

 bows and arrows, however, much prefer this method to simple stalking, even 

 in the case of a single caribou, because they are much more certain of securing 

 a shot at close range. 



Although the caribou is not as dangerous as the moose during the rutting 

 season, yet there have been cases in which a bull has turned and gored his hunter. 

 The fathers of two men, Kaiyaryuk and Karitak, whom I met in Dolphin and 

 Union strait, were living together one summer on Victoria island, their -waves 

 lieing sisters. One day, while they were fishing in a lake, a large bull caribou 

 suddenly came into view. Kaiyaryuk's father caught up his bow and concealed 

 himself, while his companion went round behind the animal and tried to drive 

 it towards him. The bull turned on him, however, and gored him several times 

 before his fellow-hunter had time to race up and despatch it wath his arrows; 

 but the man was injured so severely that he died a few hours afterwards. 



Similar drives are organized for musk-oxen, though I never witnessed one 

 myself. The natives say that these animals, unhke deer, will not flee at the 

 sight of a human being, and in consequence are often driven right up to the 

 camp before being despatched. The women utter a more prolonged wolf-howl 

 for musk-oxen than for deer, but I was never told the reason. The natives have 

 a story that an inland hunter named Kernet once ran down a musk-ox, sprang 



