. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 150 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 Generally, though, the hunter still tries to keep in concealment, and the caribou, meeting the women as they run back, return again. I have seen them driven backwards and forwards in this way three or four times before the remainder of the herd broke through the Unes past the archers and galloped away. Small herds of four or five deer are occasionally exterminated, but usually some of them escape, while not infrequently the deer break back past the women at the very. Fig. 48. A r
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 150 Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 Generally, though, the hunter still tries to keep in concealment, and the caribou, meeting the women as they run back, return again. I have seen them driven backwards and forwards in this way three or four times before the remainder of the herd broke through the Unes past the archers and galloped away. Small herds of four or five deer are occasionally exterminated, but usually some of them escape, while not infrequently the deer break back past the women at the very. Fig. 48. A represent at ion of a cariljoii drive, drawn by an Eskimo of Xorthern Alaska beginning and never approach the hunters at all. Natives who have only bows and arrows, however, much prefer this method to simple stalking, even in the case of a single caribou, because they are much more certain of securing a shot at close range. Although the caribou is not as dangerous as the moose during the rutting season, yet there have been cases in which a bull has turned and gored his hunter. The fathers of two men, Kaiyaryuk and Karitak, whom I met in Dolphin and Union strait, were living together one summer on Victoria island, their -waves lieing sisters. One day, while they were fishing in a lake, a large bull caribou suddenly came into view. Kaiyaryuk's father caught up his bow and concealed himself, while his companion went round behind the animal and tried to drive it towards him. The bull turned on him, however, and gored him several times before his fellow-hunter had time to race up and despatch it wath his arrows; but the man was injured so severely that he died a few hours afterwards. Similar drives are organized for musk-oxen, though I never witnessed one myself. The natives say that these animals, unhke deer, will not flee at the sight of a human being, and in consequence are often driven right up to the camp before being despatched. The women utter a more prolonged wolf-howl for mu
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