Their own provisions consisted of pemmican, dried caribou meat, flour, salt, tea, and tobacco.

Others he dropped in worn rabbit and caribou trails.

He missed the "KooshkooshHoo-yah!" of the driver, the spiteful snap of his twenty-foot caribou-gut whip, and that yelping and straining behind him that told him he had his followers in line.

"And thenafter I had fed youyou were going to kill me, my dear Jean," laughed Howland, flopping a huge caribou steak on the naked top of the sheet-iron stove.

Another time, as the old wolf ranged along the edges of the barrens where the caribou herds were gathering, he would hear the challenge of a huge stag and the warning crack of twigs and the thunder of hoofs as the brute charged.

Toward noon fresh caribou tracks crossed their path.

" He rose to his feet, tying the flap of his caribou skin coat about his throat.

Noel, my big Indian, was curled up asleep in a caribou skin by the foremast; and the crew were all below asleep, every man glad in his heart to be once more safe in a snug harbor.

His caribou horns had been gnawed by mice in his wigwam, but he thought that the horns neither of the moose nor of the caribou were ever gnawed while the creature was alive, as some have asserted.

He was going caribou hunting.

They followed stealthily the winding records of a score of caribou that had wandered like an eddying wind all over the barren, stopping here and there to paw great holes in the snow for the caribou moss that covered all the earth beneath.

This was the caribou range; wherever they looked they saw the tracks of the noble animals in the snow.

After he had fed the sick man a little caribou broth, persuading him with infinite patience to take it, a spoonful at a time, Morse sat down again to wear out the hours of darkness.

The reindeer-caribou type, of the genus Rangifer, agrees with American deer in having the vertical plate of the vomer complete, and in having the lower ends of the lateral metacarpals remaining, but, like Cervus, it has a brow-tine to the antlers.

He had pulled the caribou carcass from its hiding-place and was eating as Thor and Muskwa looked down on him.

Sitting on his tail he would watch the caribou closelyand who could tell what was passing behind those cunning eyes that glowed steadily like coals, unruffled as yet by the passing winds, but ready at a rough breath to break out in flames of fire?

It was Rod's first real glimpse of that wonderful animal of the North of which he had read so much, the cariboucommonly known beyond the Sixtieth Degree as the reindeer; and at this moment those below him were indulging in the queer play known in the Hudson Bay regions as the "caribou dance.

In the afternoon they returned to what was left of the caribou doe on the lake.

The caribou fat lay scattered under the bush and still imbedded in the largest portion of it was the little white capsuleunbroken.

The chest of a caribou is anatomically exactly like that of other deer; only the caribou fawn and yearling of "Northern Trails" have smaller chests than the animals I measured.

There were no trails here, leading slowly but immutably to the busy centers of civilization; not a blaze on a tree for the eyes of a woodsman riding on some forest venture, not the ashes of a dead camp fire or a charred cooking rack, where an Indian had broiled his caribou flesh.