A man who had mined at Caribou ought to know.

"Now, the Pymeuts are going in a week or two, Nicholas said, to hunt caribou in the hills.

" "Yes." "But they won't take you to hunt caribou.

All the men who had teams were gone to the hills for caribou; there was nobody to send to the Summer Caches.

I hurt my knee on the ice when I come down from Nulato for caribou.

Maudie's log-cabin was a cheerful place, its one room, neatly kept, lined throughout with red and white drill, hung with marten and fox, carpeted with wolf and caribou.

Grant's barn at Caribou Lake was said to be still larger, the biggest ox-nest in the woods, fifty feet by a hundred.

A few years ago it became evident that the Kadiak bear and certain newly discovered forms of wild sheep and caribou were being destroyed by wholesale, and were actually threatened with extermination, and through the efforts of the Club, strongly backed by the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, a bill was passed regulating the taking of Alaska large game, and especially the exportation of heads, horns, and hides.

In fact nowadays these Yellowstone elk are, with the exception of the Arctic caribou, the only American game which at times travel in immense droves like the buffalo of the old days.

Fortune favored me in one thing: the caribou came by in great droves, and, before my ammunition was exhausted, I had secured plenty of meat.

I had a little caribou meat and shared it with them; that made them my everlasting friends.

Shortly before they arrived, I noticed some strange-looking caribou in the clearing.

"Then came the wonderful discovery: these were not caribou, but reindeer escaped from some herd in Alaska.

"Well, I tried making a lasso of caribou skin.

We fed, as I said before, on my caribou meat, and then came the wild-fowl and the streams opened up for fishing.

He staggered to his feet, dazed for a moment, and Jean Croisset stood in the middle of the floor, his caribou skin coat thrown off, his hands clenched, his eyes darkening with a dangerous fire.

Twice caribou sped over the opens ahead of them.

Half a mile away a band of caribou were running for the cover of a parklike clump of timber.

A mile away Aldous saw three caribou crossing the valley.

Sometimes the lynx halted in his hunt to investigate, sometimes an old black bearkindly, benevolent good-humored old bachelor that every naturalist lovesgrunted and pondered at the edge of shadow, and sometimes even such lordly creatures as moose and caribou paused in their night journeys to see what was taking place.

"I wouldn't miss that caribou steak for anythingeven though I can't have my tea.

Was that itstruck to the earth like the caribou that fell before his rifle?

The feeding caribou swung his horns and tried to catch the scent; the moose, grubbing for water roots in the lake bottom, lifted his grotesque head and stood like a form in black iron.

With the aid of the rifles of the three fallen, they could procure meat in plenty for their remaining time at Back There; besides, the store of jerked caribou and moose was enough to hold them over.

Now if a timber wolf can kill a dog with one bite on the back, why not a young caribou at one bite on the breast?