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vain then it darted up and down, here and there, high 

 and low; the Skua followed even more quickly. A 

 second Skua came flying to help, but was not needed. 

 With a falcon-like swoop, the pirate seized the Long- 

 spur in his bill and bore it away to be devoured at the 

 nearest perch. 



At 7.30 A. M., August 24, 1907, surrounded by scat- 

 tering Caribou, we pushed off from our camp at Sand 

 Hill Bay and began the return journey. 



At Wolf -den Point we discovered a large and ancient 

 wolf-den in the rocks; also abundance of winter sign of 



Musk-ox. That day 

 we made forty miles 

 ^;:^^S" and camped for the 



Tha-na-koie from south night On the Sand 



Hill Mountain in Tha- 

 na-koie, the channel that joins Aylmer and Clinton- 

 Colden. Here we were detained by high winds until 

 the 28th. 



This island is a favourite Caribou crossing, and Billy 

 and Weeso had pitched their tents right on the place 

 selected by the Caribou for their highway. Next day, 

 while scanning the country from the top of the mount, 

 I saw three Caribou trotting along. They swam the 

 river and came toward me. As Billy and Weeso were 

 in their tents having an afternoon nap, I thought it 

 would be a good joke to stampede the Caribou on top 

 of them, so waited behind a rock, intending to jump 

 out as soon as they were past me. They followed the 

 main trail at a trot, and I leaped out with "horrid yells " 

 when they passed my rock, but now the unexpected 



