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Identifier: muskoxbisonsheep00whit (find matches)
Title: Musk-ox, bison, sheep and goat
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, Caspar, 1862-1929 Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
Subjects: Hunting Muskox American bison Mountain sheep Mountain goat
Publisher: New York, London, Macmillan
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silent land just as do the Indians.It is simply impracticable to do other than todepend on the caribou and the musk-oxen forfood for both men and dogs. Ill Seasons and Equipment Midsummer is the season when the huntermay visit the Barren Grounds with the least dis-comfort and least danger, for at this time you goby canoe. The caribou are plentiful and thethermometer rarely goes below freezing-point.But even then trials are many, and there is con-siderable danger of starvation. The mosquitoesare a pest almost beyond endurance, and thecaribou, although abundant, are down toward theArctic and of very uncertain movement. Theircourse of migration one year may be fifty to onehundred miles east or west of where it was thepreceding year. In the 350,000 square miles ofthe Barren Grounds one may easily go dayswithout finding caribou even at such a time ofplenty; and not to find them might easily meanstarvation. The most extensive trips into the BarrenGrounds for musk-oxen previous to my venture
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OUTNUMBERED Seasons and Equipment 47 had been made by two Englishmen, WarburtonPike and Henry Toke Munn. Mr. Pike (a hunterof experience whose book, Barren Ground ofNorthern Canada, published in 1892, still standsas one of the most interesting and faithful con-tributions to the literature of sport and adven-ture) spent the better part of two years in thiscountry, and made several summer and autumntrips into the Barren Grounds. He made onesummer trip solely for the purpose of killing andcacheing caribou, which he might draw upon inthe next autumn musk-ox hunt when the caribouwere scarce. Yet, notwithstanding all this prepa-ration, he had a very hard time of it in the autumnhunt and was unable to accomplish all that heset out to do. He did get, however, the musk-oxhe went after. On Munns autumn trip, althoughthere were yet to be had some fish in the lakes,he and his party and their dogs had a starvingtime of it indeed. I particularize these two tripsto instance the difficulties of hunti

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