THE MUSK-OX. 119 
Sions than former geographers or travellers 
''^ere aware. 
This quadruped, however, is but thinly scat- 
^^red over the vast and inhospitable regions in 
"'hich he is found. Mr. Fisher, who accom- 
panied Captain Ross in his first expedition, 
*^antions having seen only one individual of 
this species. Captain Franklin, in his cele- 
^1‘ated overland expedition, killed one in Au- 
gust 1824. 
In the following month his party saw a herd 
musk-oxen grazing in a valley ; hut were 
^"^^0 hours before they could come within gun- 
**^ot of them. When sufficiently near, they 
^'^led the largest cow in the herd, and wound- 
another, which escaped. As the men were 
**'iffering severely for want of provisions, they 
f^inned and cut up the animal they had shot 
a few minutes, and devoured the contents 
the stomach, which they declared to be 
^^cellent. Captain Parry, in the account of 
