Hunting Musk-Ox ■with the Dog Ribs 



long search the next morning, I found two 

 of them feeding upon the remains of a car- 

 ibou six miles from camp; and by 3 p.m., 

 just as I was concluding arrangements to 

 buy two miserable little giddies, the other 

 two dogs made their appearance. I felt 

 that a year of my life had been restored ! 



An hour later we started on the grand 

 hunt, in which only the best men engaged, 

 the women and children, of course, remain- 

 ing at the camps in the woods. There 

 were eleven Indians in the party, with two 

 lodges, — Johnnie in charge of mine, with 

 three other Indians. On the second day 

 we traversed a long, narrow lake called Ten- 

 endeatity. Early in the afternoon, from 

 the summit of a lofty granite hill, I be- 

 held the Barren Ground for the first time. 

 Behind us lay the rugged hills, their slopes 

 clothed with stunted pines, upon which a 

 bright sun was shining. Before us were 

 hills still more precipitous and barren, 

 everywhere strewn with angular blocks of 

 granite — a monotonous, dreary waste, 

 from which a snow-storm was swiftly ap- 

 proaching. Half-acre patches of pines 

 from one to three feet high still appeared 

 for a few miles, but our lodge-poles were 

 cut that day ; these were trimmed -down 

 so slender that they would afford little fuel 



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