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apjM’oach of winter moved south a«rain to the edge of the forests. 
The Indians, being themselves edge-of-the-woods people, kept in 
contact with them throughout the whole year, following them over 
the barren grounds in summer and snaring them in winter within 
the woods. A small minority of the Eskimo, the bands living inland 
from Hudson bay, also made the caribou their mainstay, and seldom 
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The fuel-gatherer of a Coitper Eskimo family. 
(Photo hy I). Jenneioi.) 
or never visited the coast to hunt the sea mammals. But these 
barren-ground or “ Caribou ” Eskimo constantly suffered from 
famine during the winter months, for so few caribou remained 
within their territories, which did not extend to the forests, that they 
had to fall back on the fish in the lakes and rivers, and on a few 
musk-oxen, to tide them over the coldest aiifl stormiest period of 
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