. Explorations in the far North [microform] : being a report of an expedition under the auspices of the University of Iowa during the years 1892, '93, and '94. Inuit; Natural history; Inuit; Sciences naturelles. 1 k .i: ]â if.:^. m^ â I K^ t' P? t 226 EXPLORATIONS IN THE FAR NORTH made into clothing; later the long, coarse hair of winter appears, which is heavy and easily broken. Their color in winterâroan âreadily assimilates with the gray-hued, moss-hung pines. Albinism is so rare among them that old Dog Ribs assured me that they had never seen a "white ; Yet I secured an exce
. Explorations in the far North [microform] : being a report of an expedition under the auspices of the University of Iowa during the years 1892, '93, and '94. Inuit; Natural history; Inuit; Sciences naturelles. 1 k .i: ]â if.:^. m^ â I K^ t' P? t 226 EXPLORATIONS IN THE FAR NORTH made into clothing; later the long, coarse hair of winter appears, which is heavy and easily broken. Their color in winterâroan âreadily assimilates with the gray-hued, moss-hung pines. Albinism is so rare among them that old Dog Ribs assured me that they had never seen a "white ; Yet I secured an excellent mountable specimen (No. 10,820) which had been killed by the Yellow Knives, who hunt northeast of the Great Slave Lake. This animal, an adult male, was entirely white, except the head, which was but little lighter in color than it should have been in a normal condition. They feed in winter upon dried grassâI have seen acres of snow pawed over in search for itâand the cream colored " reindeer moss" {Cla- do>iia rangiferina), one of the commonest lichens on the hills of the region. The caribou are gregarious, ordinarily ranging in bands of a few score, but during their migrations gathering in vast herds containing thousands of individuals. They seem to have moved eastward, as they have entirely deserted the timbered country along the Mackenzie River. They are not abundant in winter around Rae, where they were killed by hundreds ten years ago. Only one small band crossed the lake toward the west during the winter of 1893-4. Thousands remain in the Barren Ground with the musk-ox, never reaching the timber at all; the others gather in immense herds in October when they enter the woods and work southward as far as the Great Slave Lake, Lake Athabasca, and Reindeer Lake. North of the Great Slave Lake between longitude 109° and 118° W., the greater part of those which enter the timber are massed together into a single herd, which is so erratic in its move
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