ILLUSTRATIONS xiii 



FACING PAGE 



Caribou with broken leg, in sanctuary 224 



Same Caribou (another photo.) 224 



The leap for Ufe 226 



Caribou enjoying a breeze 228 



The trophy that weighed nine hundred pounds .... 228 



The head of the Musk-ox 232 



Head of bull Musk-ox — a pencil study 232 



Head of a young buck 234 



An Arctic Fox in his summer coat 234 



Earl Grey River, looking south-west 236 



Getting the first sight of the Musk-ox 238 



The bull turned and faced us 238 



Snap-shot taken at fifty yards 238 



The trout brook back of Tyrrell's Monument, Last Woods 240 



Typical landscape, Arctic Prairies 240 



A Wolverine and her cubs stealing our Caribou meat . . 252 



The camp was like a country graveyard 276 



