. Les prairies de l'Arctique, un canot-voyage de 2 000 kilomètres à la recherche du caribou ; être le récit d'un voyage à la région au nord du lac Aylmer. La chasse au chevreuil. 254 L'ARCTIQUE RÉGION DES PRAIRIES le nid était un peu comme la première ; la mère vit arriver, et accusé furieusement, prononcer une sorte de toux. Il a tiré sa mort ; ensuite les jeunes et a examiné le nid ; il y avait trois jeunes cette fois. Ils étaient blancs comme les autres. Non loin de ce camp, nous avons constaté une remarquable midden-cour des Lemmings. Il était environ 10 pieds par 40 pieds, le sol dans les limites a été abondamment parsemé de bois, un

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. 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. 254 THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES The nest was much like the first one; the mother saw him coming, and charged furiously, uttering a sort of coughing. He shot her dead; then captured the young and examined the nest; there were three young this time. They were white like the others. Not far from this camp, we found a remarkable midden-yard of Lemmings. It was about 10 feet by 40 feet, the ground within the limits was thickly strewn with pellets, at the rate of 14 to the square inch, but nowhere were Foot of a Barren-Ground Caribou ^^.^^ P^^^^ "P" ^^ this reckoning, there were over 800, 000, but there were also many outside, which probably raised the number to 1, 000, 000. Each pellet was long, brown, dry, and curved, i.e., the winter type. The place, a high, dry, very sheltered hollow, was evidently the winter range of a colony of Lem- mings that in summer went elsewhere, I suppose to lower, damper grounds. After sunset, September 5, a bunch of three or four Caribou trotted past the tents between us and the Lake, 200 yards from us; Billy went after them, as, thanks to the Wolverine, we were out of meat, and at one shot secured a fine young buck. His last winter's coat was all shed now, his ears were turning white and the white areas were expand- ing on feet and buttocks; his belly was pure white. On his back and rump, chiefly the latter, were the. 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 work.. Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. New York, C. Scribner's Sons

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