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Title: On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Haworth, Paul Leland, 1876-1938
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Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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ey multiply so rapidly that, if not checkedin some way, they would soon not have standing-room.Scarcity of rabbits is a serious matter to the people whoinhabit these northern regions. The Indians largelydepend on rabbits snared by the squaws and childrento get them through periods of scarcity of *big meat,*and not infrequently white trappers also are reduced tocatching and eating the humble bunnies. Furthermore,several animals, including the lynx, marten, coyote, andwolf, live mostly or in part on rabbits. When the rab-bit crop is short the lynx and marten crops are short,also; many lynx, in fact, starve to death in such times.The big wolves also hunt much larger game. Theyhang around caribou herds and take toll of calves, younganimals, the sick and crippled, and now and then of thesound and strong. Deer, mountain-sheep, mountain-goats, and even moose fall prey to them. MacFarlanerelates that once while travelling on the ice betweenForts Liard and Nelson his party came upon a patch of
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-) O QZ o pa o OS oo w H H < U< pao oo THE END OF IT 283 hard-packed bloody snow where a pack of wolves hadset upon and pulled down a big bull moose and hadeaten everything except the larger bones. The bullhad evidently fought hard for his life, for near by theyfound and killed a wolf that had one of its hind legsshattered. The people of the Peace River country lose manyhorses and cows in winter through the depredations ofwolves. Around St. John a few winters before abouttwo hundred horses were so destroyed. If the Indianreports of wolves coming down from the north were true,then the winter of 1916-17 doubtless proved a bad onefor stock owners. If wolves multiplied without checks of any kind, theywould soon overrun the country, for they are so craftythat it is difficult to kill them except by poisoning.Luckily, they are subject to several fatal diseases: mangekills many, and the beasts are also attacked by a strangedistemper that now and then sweeps away some of theEski

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