CHAPTER, V. 
CARIBOU. 
AxtHoues occasionally the caribou is killed within the 
limits of the United States, they have ever there been deem- 
ed scarce, doubtless from it being the extreme southern lim- 
it of their habitat, nor can they be found in such numbers 
as to justify the sportsman going in their pursuit till the 
northern shores of the great St. Lawrence are gained ; from 
whence, as the traveler advances into higher latitudes, daily 
indications of their presence will become more abundant. 
How far to the north they may be found is doubtful, al- 
though it is beyond a question that their range extends to 
the Arctic Circle. The almost unknown interior of the 
vast island of Newfoundland abounds with them; also the 
interior of Labrador; while in the uninhabited waste be- 
tween Hudson Bay and Alaska, late Russian America, their 
numbers are so great as to form the staple article of food 
of the inhabitants of these dismal lands. 
Capable of resisting with comparative impunity the great- 
est severity of cold, they suffer severely from heat, to avoid 
which they make two migrations annually—to the north in 
summer, grazing back to the south in winter. During these 
journeys the greatest destruction of the species takes place ; 
for they almost invariably follow the same line of march, 
with which the natives are acquainted, and where they await 
for the herd either entering mountain defiles or crossing 
rivers, when they are surrounded and _ indiscriminately 
slaughtered. ‘They are also hunted on snow-shoes, after 
the manner of moose. 
