. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. OUR WOOD-lilSON HUNT 125 you are surfeited, but after a couple of Hours' hard travel- ling you feel as empty as though in the midst of a pro- longed fast. There is neither nourishment nor strength in the meat, and yet the rabbit seems almost to be manna for the otherwise God-forsaken land. In countless num- bers they skurry over the entire country, and are just the ordinary rabbit known everywhere, except that here they change to white in the winter, and on the lower Barren G
. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. OUR WOOD-lilSON HUNT 125 you are surfeited, but after a couple of Hours' hard travel- ling you feel as empty as though in the midst of a pro- longed fast. There is neither nourishment nor strength in the meat, and yet the rabbit seems almost to be manna for the otherwise God-forsaken land. In countless num- bers they skurry over the entire country, and are just the ordinary rabbit known everywhere, except that here they change to white in the winter, and on the lower Barren Grounds double in size, and become arctic hares. Every seventh year their numbers are decreased a good half by. RABBrr SNARE a mysterious and deadly disease, and then the Indians suffer, for no one can say how many depend on them for subsistence. If there is caribou or moose meat or fish at the lodge, it goes to the hunters, who must face the storms and withstand the hardships of travel; but the " squaw men," the old men, and certainly the women and children, more than once during the year owe their very lives to the rabbit. So, although despised by me, he is revered in this home of snow and hunger. Caribou, I may say in passing, I consider of all wild meats the one that one tires of least. We moved only fifteen miles the first day we broke our. 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 Whitney, Caspar, 1862?-1929. New York : Harper
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