Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . the require-ments of a cooking stove as well. On the twenty-fifth of Octoher we asseml)led all ourluggage on the accommodation train, and after fastening thecanoes on top of the car we proceeded to a station calledSandy Crossing. The accommodation, or mixed train as itis sometimes called, is a comhination of freight cars with apassenger coach thrown in. It really is mixed as it is oftenhard to determine the difference between the freight car andthe passenger coach. The train was supposed to be due at9 A. M., but on arriving at the depot we were informed thatit was a
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . the require-ments of a cooking stove as well. On the twenty-fifth of Octoher we asseml)led all ourluggage on the accommodation train, and after fastening thecanoes on top of the car we proceeded to a station calledSandy Crossing. The accommodation, or mixed train as itis sometimes called, is a comhination of freight cars with apassenger coach thrown in. It really is mixed as it is oftenhard to determine the difference between the freight car andthe passenger coach. The train was supposed to be due at9 A. M., but on arriving at the depot we were informed thatit was about three hoius late, so I went back to the hoteland had breakfast. I returned again and was told that Ipro])a])ly woidd have a chance to eat lunch before the trainarrived. Acting on this suggestion, I returned to the hotel,had lunch, and finallv ])oarded the train, which left Curliuat 2:30 p. m. The distance between this point and SandyCrossing is fifty miles and was covered at the alarming rateof about ten miles an CARIBOU COUNTRY IN WINTER 85 jMv fellow passengers were a party of twenty meathunters who were travelling to the hunting grounds for awinter supply of caribou meat. They were a motley crowdmade up of Irish, Scotch, and lialf-breed Indians, or jack-a-tars. Clad as they were in heavy winter woollens withlong-legged seal-skin boots, they presented a picture rarelyencountered outside one of Rex Beachs novels of the NorthWoods. The accommodations of the mixed train were de-cidedly primitive. Two smoky kitchen hand lamps had beenimprovised as the illuminating outfit, and l)y their dim yel-low light many of the occupants joined in a poker game. Ateither end of the car a small coal stove heated the pungent odor of coffee came from the stove at the rear,while on the other end a meal of fish was frying. Camping outfits, together with trunks and chests, werepiled high on the empty seats. Tin, log burning camp stoveswere in e^ idence everywhere, while stacke
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