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have their regular trails and runways, which they pursue in their 
regular migrations, always crossing the streams at favorite fords. 
In these migrations the deer march in small bands, in single file, 
generally several feet apart, in well beaten paths. Their march 
is leisurely made, and rather slow, frequently picking the lichens 
as they pass, unless they observe something to excite their sus- 
picions. This is the time for the natives to make their harvest 
of meat. The greatest opportunity is at the ford of a broad 
stream. 
Dr. Richardson, in treating of the Woodland Caribou, says: 
‘Mr. Hutchins mentions that he has seen eighty carcasses of this 
kind of deer brought into York Factory in one day, and many 
others were refused for the want of salt to preserve them. These 
were killed when in the act of crossing Hays River, and the na- 
tives continued to destroy them, for the sake of the skins, long 
after they had stored up more meat than they required. I have 
been informed by several of the residents of York Factory that 
the herds are sometimes so large as to require several hours to 
cross the river in a crowded phalanx.” 
On the island of Newfoundland, this deer is equally migratory ; 
but necessarily its migrations are more limited territorially, ex- 
cept in the few instances when they cross the broad waters which 
separate the island from Labrador, in the winter on the ice; but 
this rather facilitates than impedes this mode of capture by the 
natives, for it compels them to pursue their travels within more 
defined routes, and so they are the more easily waylaid and 
destroyed. 
In the interior of Labrador this deer, especially in the winter 
season, contributes largely to the sustenance of the natives, who 
still pursue it with the bow and arrow with some degree of suc- 
cess. Hind, standing on the divide between the waters of the 
Miosie and the Ashwanipi, listened to the story of the Indian, 
Michel, the theatre of which lay before them, and gives it thus: 
‘He had been watching for some hours with his companion when 
they heard the clatter of hoofs over the rocks. Looking in a 
direction from which they least expected Caribou would come, 
they saw two Caribou, pursued by a small band of wolves, mak- 
ing directly for the spot where they were lying. They were 
not more than three hundred yards away, and coming with tre- 
mendous bounds, and fast increasing the distance between them- 
selves and the wolves, who had evidently surprised them only a 
short time before. Neither Michel nor his companion had fire- 
