Rod and gun . where and one could hardlyventure on a rabbit run within two miles after caribou. Three days was usuallysufficient time to secure enough venisonto last us a month. On such a trip wewould haul our toboggan up creeks andthrough the v^-oods for a distance of fortyor fifty miles. Open brush camps wereour only shelter at night and bacon, ban-nocks, and tea sufficed to keep the Starting on a Hunt for Ciribou. of the shack without disturbing a first marten taken was found hungup in one of these nooses. As our supply of fresh meat dwindledwe would take a toboggan, la
Rod and gun . where and one could hardlyventure on a rabbit run within two miles after caribou. Three days was usuallysufficient time to secure enough venisonto last us a month. On such a trip wewould haul our toboggan up creeks andthrough the v^-oods for a distance of fortyor fifty miles. Open brush camps wereour only shelter at night and bacon, ban-nocks, and tea sufficed to keep the Starting on a Hunt for Ciribou. of the shack without disturbing a first marten taken was found hungup in one of these nooses. As our supply of fresh meat dwindledwe would take a toboggan, lash our gunsand eider-downs, and a weeks provisionson to it and harnessing ouri^elves to theload, don our snow shoes and start off I shall never forget our first caribou—shot not one hundred yards from the doorof our shack. It was really a case of get-ting money from home without asking forit, for the poor animal had never onechance in a hundred of escaping. It wasin the latter part of September and wehad eaten our last venison steak the day FOLLOWING THE FUR TRAIL 131 before. An expedition for the purposeof replenishing the meat safe was being-contemplated. I had gone outside theshack and happening to take a glanceabout the river I saw what appeared to bea tree drifting upstream on the rising more earnestly I noticed that itwas turning about and about. I knewthere were no e
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