. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. TIIK WULVKKIXE. 601 I â I i'i propensity of the animal for tree-cutting is again hinted at, as well as his keenness of scent: "Brown advised that, as this was a good place, some provisions be cached for those of the party wlio were to return from Jasper's; and Yalad selecting a site in the greenwood, he and Beaupre went off to it I'lom the oppo- s
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. TIIK WULVKKIXE. 601 I â I i'i propensity of the animal for tree-cutting is again hinted at, as well as his keenness of scent: "Brown advised that, as this was a good place, some provisions be cached for those of the party wlio were to return from Jasper's; and Yalad selecting a site in the greenwood, he and Beaupre went off to it I'lom the oppo- site direction, with about twenty-five pounds of pemniican and flour, tied up first in canvas and then in oil-skin, as the Wolverine âmost dreaded plunderer of cacZ/cA'âdislikes the smell of oil. Selecting two suitable pine-trees in the thick wood, they skinned (barked) them to prevent animals from climbing; then placing a pole between the two, some eighteen feet from the ground, they hung a St. Andrew's cross of two small sticks from the pole, and suspended their bag from the end of one, tliat the least movement, or even iniff of wind, would set it swinging. Such a cache ^"alad guaranteed against bird and beast of whatever ;' Whether his guarantee held good, or whether the Wol- verine, disregarding the cross and defying the ingenuity of the vo7/afjeurs, plundered the cacJie, the historian does not I 'â. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shields, G. O. (George Oliver), 1846-1925; Caton, John Dean, 1812-1895. London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
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