. The Arctic prairies, a canoe-journey of 2,000 miles in search of the caribou; being the account of a voyage to the region north of Aylmer Lake. Deer hunting. ON THE NYARLING 139 its tail as it went down. Next night another splashed by our boat. This morning as we paddled we saw a little stream, very muddy, trickling into the river. Bezkya said, "Beaver at work on his dam ; Now that we were really heading for flour, our Indian showed up well. He was a strong paddler, silent but appar- ently cheerful, ready at all times to work. As a hunter and guide he was of course first clas
. The Arctic prairies, a canoe-journey of 2,000 miles in search of the caribou; being the account of a voyage to the region north of Aylmer Lake. Deer hunting. ON THE NYARLING 139 its tail as it went down. Next night another splashed by our boat. This morning as we paddled we saw a little stream, very muddy, trickling into the river. Bezkya said, "Beaver at work on his dam ; Now that we were really heading for flour, our Indian showed up well. He was a strong paddler, silent but appar- ently cheerful, ready at all times to work. As a hunter and guide he was of course first class. About we came on a large Beaver sunning him- self on a perch built of mud just above the water. He looked Uke a huge chest- nut Muskrat. He plunged at once but came up again 30 yards farther down, took another look, and dived, to be seen no more. At noon we reached our old camp, the last where all had been together. Here we put up a monument on a tree, and were mortified to think we had not done so at our farthest camp. There were numbers of Yellowlegs breeding here; we were surprised to see them resting on trees or flying from one branch to another. A Great Gray-owl sitting on a stump was a con-. Ledum groenlandicum. 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 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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