THE CHASE. 363 
THE WOODLAND CARIBOU. 
The endowments of this animal render its pursuit a work of 
care and labor in those regions where it has been much hunted, 
and so the excitement of the chase is enhanced in a corresponding 
degree. Indeed none other of the deer family abhors civilization 
so much as this, and none so quickly desert a country upon its 
approach. While it occupies the range jointly with the moose, 
they are by no means social neighbors, and the Caribou hastens 
away, whenever it finds itself in close contact with its larger 
cousin. 
Except in unfrequented regions it is only found in timbered 
lands or in the bushy barrens, where it can find safe covert from 
its pursuers. If once alarmed by the hunter, it flees away in 
continued alarm, nor stops to rest or feed, till it has gone so great 
a distance that pursuit is quite out of the question. If the ex- 
perienced hunter wounds the Caribou, he makes no attempt to, 
follow him, unless he believes him so disabled that he lacks the 
physical strength to escape to any great distance, for he knows 
he will never stop till compelled by absolute exhaustion, or a per- 
fectly safe distance has been attained. . 
If, like the other deer, it does not readily recognize objects by 
sight alone, its senses of hearing and smell are acute and discrim- 
inating, and this must be ever borne in mind by the successful 
hunter. The habits of this deer vary very much in different 
localities, so they must be specially studied under varying circum- 
stances. The mode of pursuit which may be very successful, in 
remote seclusion, where it is rarely alarmed, might be quite 
fruitless where it is frequently pursued, and so has become ever 
watchful and vigilant. 
Although the Caribou is nearly voiceless, yet it is not ie. 
so. During the love season the male expresses his desires, and 
invites a mate, by a short deep note, something approaching a 
bellow, but the Indians, of the present day at least, do not at- 
tempt to imitate it and so attempt to call the deer within range 
of the rifle, as we have seen they do the moose, though they claim 
that in former times this was successfully practiced by their an- 
cestors. Stalking or creeping is the only resource left to the 
sportsman in regions at all accessible to him, where the deer 
have been rendered cautious and wary by pursuit. In the interior 
of Newfoundland and the sterile regions of Labrador, where the 
country has not been harried by the white man, the case is quite 
