caribou swimming towards us. Charlie McDonald said he would ride it if I could catch it. So, taking a long line which we used for “tracking” the canoes upstream, Jewett, McDonald and I launched a canoe and took after the caribou. He did not seem to mind us and hardly even changed his direction, so we had no difficulty in coming up behind him.
I missed with my first throw, a rocking canoe not being the easiest place to rope from, but I got him with the second try. A caribou, besides the wide and high horns on each side, has a spade, a serrated horn about five inches in width which runs in front of his face from skull to
