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FOREST AND STREAM. 
April 20, 1895. 
in the way of news, too, is the information in regard to 
the buffalo of the remote region described. 
It seems that Mr. Munn left from Edmonton, taking 
the Hudson Bay route to Athabasca Lake and the Slave 
River, to Ft. Resolution, going thence to Fon du Lac for 
caribou shooting, failing to find any musk ox en route 
along Artillery Lake. The caribou were so, abundant 
near Fon du Lac that it was no sport to shoot them, so 
Mr. Munn arranged with a party of twelve Indians and 
nine dog trains to go out after ox. Of this trip he says: 
"We started witli enough food to last us four days, ex- 
pecting to be away a month. It is necessary to kill food 
as you go along up there, because the dogs could not 
carry the weight of much provisions. The dogs began to 
starve about the fifth day out, but on that day 1 shot 
three caribou. We went to Lockhart's River and found 
the snow getting deeper the further north we struck. 
Going due north for three days brought us upon the only 
herd of musk ox we saw. There were twenty-two, and 
we shot nine, turning the dogs loose and herding the 
musk ox like cattle. After that we were delayed by a 
blizzard for two days, with the thermometer from fifteen 
to twenty below. It was not pleasant weather to sit still 
in; we had just enough wood with us to boil meat twice 
a day, but not enough to boil the kettle for tea, and as 
the only food we had was caribou meat and tea, our 
meals were not of an inviting nature. 
"When the blizzard was over we split up into two 
parties, one going east and wpst, and the other, the one I 
went with, going north. We travelled for three days 
and saw no more musk ox, and then the Indians said they 
would go home. It had got pretty cold by this time, we 
turned and came back by a different route, taking Great 
Fish River, about twenty miles from the north end of 
Aylmer Lake. There were a few Arctic hares, and 
wandering bands of caribou to be seen, but except for the 
big bands of black wolves, there was very little life stir- 
ring in those regions at that time. These wolves, by the 
way, are a distinct breed from the Arctic wolf, which is 
white, and are unlike the usual timber wolf. They live 
on the straggling caribou, and seem to inspire the Indians 
with some fear. One of our party was out late one night, 
and the rest got very nervous about his safety. 
"We turned back, however, and on the return journey 
we practically starved the whole w r ay. We ran out of 
caribou meat, and couldn't get at anything to shoot. 
We opened the hides of the animals we had shot and 
scraped off the fat, but it was one long starvation till we 
got back to where the squaws had been left. About 
there we killed three caribou and fed the dogs and our- 
selves. We had lost ten dogs out of twenty on the return 
trip — died of starvation. 
"Here I had the first row with the Indians. They 
wanted to go after the squaws who had left for Slave 
Lake, and I wanted to go back half a day to where the 
caribou were. I said 1 bad starved as much as I wanted 
to'for some time, and I was going to kill some meat. In- 
dians get frightfully homesick; they cau't stand a long 
trip away from their people at all, and they turned very 
sulky. I spoke in French to the half-breed, and he tran- 
slated to the Indians, and we fiually parted in dudgeon. 
I went back with two Indians, the half-breed and dog 
trains, and the rest went south. We killei caribou and 
returned, catching up with the rest of the party at Fon 
du Lac, where the women had collected. They were 
rather glad to see us, as they were just out of food again, 
and we had killed another caribou before joining them. 
"I spent Christmas at Fort Resolution, with a fewwhite 
missionaries, and then went up to Fort Smith to hunt 
Buffalo. Whitney, the man who was sent up by Harper's 
Magazine came with me on this hunt, but we didn't get 
anything. The second time I went out I spent sixteen 
days hunting the animals, and we got one shot at a bull, 
but he was too far off, and a warm spell setting ill about 
that time with a good deal of rain, broke up the dog 
sleighing and we couldn't travel any further. I should 
think there are about 300 buffalo iu that country. There 
is no earthly danger of their being exterminated, because 
they go like the wind as soon as a shot is fired, and take 
to the timber, where a horse could not follow them. 
They will travel for about five days on a stretch when- 
ever they are disturbed. 
"A law has been passed at Ottawa lately, affecting the 
hunting of musk ox, which will certainly make trouble 
among the Indians if it is enforced. Of course, it doesn't 
follow that it will be, but the law is that the close season 
for musk ox shall begin on March 1. There used to be 
no closed season for musk ox at all up there, and as the 
Indians don't begin their spring hunt until March 20, it 
is evident that they will have a strong ground for com- 
plaint, and will practically get no musk ox hunting at 
all. There can be no reason for the passing of such a law 
for the preservation of the animal, because as a matter of 
fact the Indians never get into the musk ox country 
proper; they are only on the edge of it. 
"We made good time returning home, and did 520 
miles of road in thirteen days. I was not sorry to get 
back to civilization." 
HE IS DISCOVERED. 
Maj. H. S. Kilbourne, rostered as Major and Surgeon, 
U. S. A., Ft. Clark, Tex., whom the Forest and Stream 
friends of the U. S. Post Offices at Boston and New York 
have for the past two weeks been helping me to trace, 
has been discovered personally and very pleasantly so. 
He writes from Ft. Clam this week, saying in part: "In 
the meantime, through the kind offices of Capt. Ander- 
son, I have procured some of the photographs, which I 
find, to be the very best pictures of li"e game that I have 
ever seen. Indeed, the work of your excursion seems to 
have been something unique and notable. All this is no 
doubt an old story now for you. The pictures of buffalo 
are of special interest , and as far as I know, they are the 
only ones extant. The immense herds which formerly 
roamed over the great plains of the West have left 
. pictures only in the memory. I have some notes for a. 
couple of sketches of the buffalo hunting of the Co>- 
inanches, which, at leisure, I may offer for publication.*' 
THE PRINCE BROKE THE LAW., 
In an earlier issue of Forest and Stream I showed, per 
comic opera, that the nobility of England are market- 
shooters, much as I regretted to do that. It pains me now 
to show, that, beyond any kind of doubt, the Prince of 
Wales is, or was, a violater of the law and a Sunday 
1 1 1 U i . 11 a^e no doubt that I will presently be able to^ 
prove that Queen Victoria goes fishing ahead of the sea- 
son, much as that will grieve me. The Tribune of this 
city affords the record in regard to the Prince of Wales, 
in a recent story from the town of D wight, of this State. 
It may be remembered that the Prince of Wales (incog- 
nito as "Lord Renfrew") some thirty-years ago made a 
visit to this section of the world on a hunting trip. With 
him, and composing the retinue, were the Duke of New- 
castle, Capt. Retallack, Gen. Bruce, Mr. Leduc, Maj. 
Teesdale, Capt. Gray. Mr. Elliott, who was a son of 
Lord St. Germains, Lord Hinchinbrooke and Francis 
Wilkins. 
The Tribune goes on to say: 
"A good man living in Dwight went to church on the 
morning: following the Prince's arrival, and there to his 
delight he found the royal party. He was moved to sit 
down as soon as service was ended and write to a Chicago 
paper: 'The distinguished visitors set a good example that 
does credit and is well worth following, though often 
neglected, "in their Christian observance of the Sabbath. 
The royal party attended religious service at the old 
school Presbyterian Church and listened to an excellent 
sermon by Dr. Young from the text: 'For I am not 
ashamed of the gospel of Christ.' 
"Iain happy to state that the royal party were deeply 
impressed with the power and appropriatness to the oc- 
casion with which our worthy minister presented the 
impressive text to their minds. I, am also gratified be- 
yond measure to say that, it being the Sabbath day, the 
Prince refused an invitation to take a pleasure drive. 
"Four hours after the Avorthy Dwight resident had 
penned these words of approbation of the Prince's observ- 
ance of the holy day, the whole royal party, from the 
heir apparent down to the pointer dog Pat, were arrested 
for violating the law by shooting on Sunday. A fat fine 
was lodged against each name and was paid expedi- 
tiously. Thisjj is the happening about which the Dwight 
people now considerately say little. 
"Th.j visitors managed to get in a good uninter- 
rupted day's shoot Monday. They divided into two parties 
and killed altogether 195 birds. The Prince procured 
more to his gun than anyone else did, a fact which would 
not be hard to account for under any circumstances, 
but which the country correspondent of the day lays to 
the circumstance that the Prince had a Lancaster gun 
which loaded at the breech.'' 
It seems that the best way to do is not to violate the 
laws of one's own or another country, for it may all 
come up again, 30 or 40 years after it happened, and spoil 
one's chance of getting to be King Awfully sorry to 
have to say anything about this, but I 'ope, Prince, as 'ow 
you aren't goin' to let it interfere with our friendship. 
ARRESTER ARRESTED. 
Last December A. W. Friese. of Milwaukee, had Joseph 
Duke arrested for selling illegal quail, as stated in these 
columns at that time. The case fell through, owing to a 
blunder "of the prosecuting attorney. And now comes 
Mr. Duke, and sues Mr. Friese for $5,000 for false arrest. 
Duke will never lay up any money at that, and ought 
to be wiser than to make so foolish a move, as now his 
case can be opened up again, and properly handled. Duke 
will get convicted this time. Mr. Friese says that illegal 
venison in tons passes unchecked through Milwaukee to 
Chicago and New York, there being no deputy warden 
for that district, and little action of any kind against 
"violaters of the law, except such as that taken at their 
own risk and expense by individuals, as in his own case. 
He thinks the Nat. Ass'n should help him in his fight. 
NIPPERSINK CLUB. 
Members of the Nippersink Club, an organization of 
sportsmen who go to Fox Lake, met at the Sherman 
House last night to select officers for the coming year. 
The following were selected- President, C D. Gastfield; 
Directors. L. E. Weick, P. O'Malley, F. C. Mueller, W. 
N. Eckardt, G. D. Eddy, C. E. Rehm, Theodore Wilken, 
and T. J. Webb. 
BACK FROM TUCATAN. 
Last December Mr. A. V. Armour, of Chicago, organ- 
ised a scientific and exploring expedition to go to Yuca- 
tan. To day New York dispatches say that their yacht, 
the Itunia, is expected there in a few clays. The party 
consisted of Prof. Allan Marquand, of Princeton; W. H. 
Holmes, professor of Anthropology of the Field Colum- 
bian Museum of Chicago; Prof. ( . F. Millspaugh, of the 
Field Museum, S. C. ; Peck, Marshall Miller .Norman Wil- 
liams and William Armour. Portions of Eastern Yuca- 
tan, which, it is claimed, w r ere never before visited by 
scientists or travelers, were visited. They ascended the 
River Usamacinta fifty miles in their steam launches to 
the city of Jobasco. With canoes they went up the river 
higher, and finally took horses to the base of great moun- 
tains on the borders of Mexico. Near Palanque the ex- 
plorers found a great ruined city, estimated to be over a 
thousand years o'd. 
SCATTERED ITEMS. 
In Wisconsin the ice this week remains very solid all 
over the inuscailunge lakes, but there is still prospect of 
its going out early this season. 
In Washington they are using dynamite to kill squir- 
rels, which latter are eating up the country. They burn 
the dynamite in the holes, and the fumes do the work. 
In New Mexico the Mescalero Apaches are said to have 
left their reservation this week. If they would go away 
and stay it would be a good thing for sportsmen, for the 
reservation is a great sporting country, especially for 
trout fishing. I have swiped many a trout off that pre- 
serve of the noble red men, and there are few better 
streams than the Ruidoso was in those times, though the 
Apaches in those days were rather an uncertain factor. 
GOOD BAGS OF DUCKS. 
On two days of the past week Messrs. Edward Morton, 
Frank E. Jarvis and I. F. Hogan, all of Chicago, 
bageed 167 Mucks (bluebills, red heads and butter balls) 
at Billy Tuohy's place on Eagle Lake, Wisconsin (in 
Waukesha county). These gentlemen are very enthusi- 
astic over their trip to Eagle, and write: "The shooting 
was the finest of the season. Eagle Lake is showing up 
the best shooting in this section of Wisconsin. The hotel 
is more than comfortable, and a royal good time and 
good shooting are sure to be found." 
IN LOVELY WAUKESHA. 
^ With all the gentlemen say above as to comfort and 
good sport at Billy 's place, and with all the good things 
they could say about Billy himself. I am disposed to agree \ 
heartily. I have often written of this region of Wau- I 
kesha county, and have camped there four years, and 
trj'ing each year to find a better" place for sport and com- 1 
fort. I doubt if the beautiful State of Wisconsin holds a 
lovlier section than the lake region of Waukesha and ; 
Walworth counties. 
The other day Mr. H. L. Stanton, Western manager of 
the Natchaug Silk Co., wanted to "go somewhere out of 
the city" for "almost any kind of fun," so we ran up to i 
Mukwonago and walked over to'Eagle from there, about 
six miles or so, carrying our duffle for the sake of the ex- 
ercise. We loafed around Billy's place for a little while, • 
and then Billy took us out to see the country. I found 
that I had not yet explored it half so much as I thought 
I had. We found a beautiful lake, with bass and big I 
pickerel in it, and a spring at the edge of a fine camp site | 
on the top of a big bluff— so charming a place that I fear 
this summer our grounds a t Phantom Lake will lose us, 
since they are becoming much subject to resorters. We 
found a lake said to have been stocked with lake trout 
eight years ago. We found three pickerel lakes I had ■ 
never heard of, and a stream where one can catch chubs 
for bait, and a pond where bull frogs grow large and 
numerous. We found a dozen new springs of clear water 
and some new woods and plenty of clean green grass just 
coming up, and some willows turning yellow and some 
poplars about to bud, and a lot of things which seemed 
very good to us. We found a stream or so bearing vague 
rumors of strange speckled fish; and last of all we found 
a trout water — a preserve, or private pond, it is true, but 
none the less showing to us, near, though yet so far, the 
gkrious creatures in all sizes from an inch up to four 
pounds. 
This private pond is the property of Senator J. A. Linz, 
of Eagle, Wis., and makes one of the features of his 
country place. It is about 200 yards by forty yards in 
size, or perhaps larger, and runs from two to twelve feet, 
deep, the water being absolutely clear, with the blue 
clearness peculiar to spring water in this region. The 
pool lies just below a great spring which gushes out of 
the foot of a high bluff. Linz stocked this pool some ten 
years ago, and it now has thousands of trout in it, some 
as heavy as six pounds he thinks. The whole stream be- 
low this point has been gradually supplied with trout 1 
which have gone over the falls at the foot of the pool. 
The proprietor of this attraction does not allow any fish- 
. ing, and does not sell any of his trout , so they have in- 
creased wonderfully, depleted only by such small 
numbers as he once in a while gives to his friends near 
• by for a trout dinner. At the time of our visit the trout 
were leaping in numbers all over the pool, in some mys- 
terious game of their own, and it afforded a goodly, albeit 
somewhat trying spectacle. The fish seemed to be of 
a very brilliant coloration, and in short were beautiful,! 
as only leaping trout can be. Sen. Linz is surely to be. 
congratulated upon so rare a feature of interest for his; 
farm, though I don't see how he manages to keep from; 
catching all the trout out of there himself. 
THE NORTHWEST VIA "NORTHWESTERN." 
The Chicago sportsmen. Messrs. W. B. Leff ingwell and' 
W. L. Wells, have together produced the most artistic! 
book yet at hand in these days of elaborate railroad i 
literature, the former doing the writing and the latter the! 
illustrating, with a happinpss winch might have been! 
predicted. Mr. W. B. Kniskern, the general passenger! 
agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, is to be! 
congratulated on the result, a tidy and irreproachable lit- 1 
tie booklet of a hundred pages, (with a hue map) entitled 
"Hunting and Fishing Along the Northwestern Line." 
Tin desirable points are described succinctly, and it is 
promised, with accuracy, for the use of the tourist public,! 
who have now few questions to ask which can not be easily 
answered by print. 
One wonders, perhaps, what can be meant by the fol- 
lowing fish: "There is in Lake Superior a species of fish 
called rock trout, which are similar in appearance to 
brook trout, but grow to a much larger sizp. The smaller 
ones are often shipped and are passed off to the un- 
initiated for brook trout, especially in cities where one's 
confidence in the fishmonger is so often misplaced." 
There are a great many real brook tront netted in Lake; 
Superior and sold, that fish attaining greater size in the 
lakes than in the streams, though it visits the streams 
late in summer to spawn. I have never before heard of 
any "rock trout," though the brook trout is usually 
taken near the rocks and reef's. This, however, not in 
criticism. Serious criticism does not lie against the book 
itself, though with the English of it one can not always 
agree— as for instance in the un-English barbarities of 
such plurals as "fishes," "elks," "snipes," etc., with 1 
which it is a pity to mar so finished and artistic a con- 
ception. As it stands, the book is the last word in 
modern railroad literature, and it is good and wholesome 
rea'ing. 
THE PEN AND THE GUN. 
.Capt. A. W. Du Bray, of the Parker Gun, very well 
known over the shooting world, has this week extended 
his field of activity and gone into the newspaper business,' 
having arranged to take charge of the trap department 
of our young Southern contemporary, the Rod, Gun and 
Kennel, of Louisville, Ky. Everybody knows that the- 
pen is mightier than the sword, but I-imagine that it will- 
be cause of satisfaction to Capt. Du Bray not to be forced 
to choose between the pen and the gun, either of which 
he handles so well. 
WHERE THE PARROTS COME FROM. 
Mr, G. W. McClelian, of Minneapolis, Minn., has just 
returned from a long sojourn in Mexico and Central 
America, passing through Chicago to- lay on his way 
home to Minneapolis, whence he. returns later to the far, 
south country. Mr. McClelian speaks in glowing terms 
of the sporting resources of the region he has been visit- 
ing, and says no Northern man can have any idea of the 
shooting and fishing to be had there. He was away dowm 
where the parrots come from. He may write ot it for' 
Forest and Stream. 
THE ONLT SUMMER FOWL. 
Mr."J. DeLong, of Brooklyn, N. Y., writes to his friend 
Pop Hirth, the historic character who takes care of A. G. 
Spalding & Bros.' fishing tackle department, asking 
about a muscallonge trip up in Wisconsin in June, and 1 
wishing to know if there was any shooting at that time, 
and if so, at what? 
"I have told Mr. DeLong," said Mr. Hirth to me, with 
