. Camps in the Rockies [microform] : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an account of the cattle ranches of the West. Camping; Hunting; Camping; Chasse. Camps in the Rockies, v\. \i\' filllirin. 1. I understand, is never the case with the other variety. Of the dozens of "â bank beavers " the men I was with dug out, they never found more than one " set," or family, occupying the warmly padded nest. The houses of dam beavers are not difficult to examine, for they are above ground, and five or ten minutes^ careful work will usuall
. Camps in the Rockies [microform] : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an account of the cattle ranches of the West. Camping; Hunting; Camping; Chasse. Camps in the Rockies, v\. \i\' filllirin. 1. I understand, is never the case with the other variety. Of the dozens of "â bank beavers " the men I was with dug out, they never found more than one " set," or family, occupying the warmly padded nest. The houses of dam beavers are not difficult to examine, for they are above ground, and five or ten minutes^ careful work will usually suffice to lay open the neat inside of the " wood pile " structure. The number of inmates, as well as the size of these houses, varies considerably. Regarding the former point, my personal observation is numerically far behind that of other travellers. I have never seen, or had actual proof of, more than eight beaver living in the same tenementâa number far exceeded by others. The greatest number authentically recorded is, I believe, instanced by Hearne, in his narrative of exploration in the Hudson^s Bay countr}'', nearly a century ago, where he relates that the Indians of his party killed twelve old beaver and twenty-five young and half-grown ones out of one house, and he adds, it was found on examination that several others had escaped. The house was a very large one, and had nearly a dozen apartments under one roof, which, with two exceptions, had no communication wl'h each other, except by water, and were probably occupied by separate families. Not so easy is it to examine the dwellings of bank beaver, for during summer and autumn the entrance is several feet under water, and the nest itself can only be reached by digging down in trapper fashionâa process not conducive to a closer examination of the dwelling. In winter, however, when even the swiftest and most rebellious mountain torrents are laid in icy bandsâat a period, too, when the water level is gener
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