La Hontain, who is the first that speaks of the carcajou of North America, says, "Figure to yourself an animal of double the size and thickness of a badger, and you have a perfect resemblance of this animal.
It is also highly probable that the animal of Hudson's Bay, which Edwards has called the quick hatch, or wolverin, is the same as the carcajou of Canada, or the glutton of the northern part of Europe.
Swiftly, stealthily, he slunk to the very spot, and pushed his round head through a little bush-opening that seemed designed by Carcajou to conceal his stolen Meat.
He went often after the first visit, though advised by Carcajou that it would end in his getting a destroying blast from the Firestick.
Carcajou has raided, not one, but many shacks through the chimney, as fifty Trappers in the North-West could be brought to testify.
Surely the unfortunate Carcajou had scorched his feet, and mayhap his back, when he fell in the fire-place.
It was under the bed that Carcajou discovered the instrument, and when he had finished with it, it might have been put in paper boxes and sold as matches.
So Carcajou is entitled by our law to half of the spoil, and I suppose that is the Fat-eating he has cached; the other half went in the love feast.
During his delay over getting a straight start, Carcajou and Mink, half-way down, got into an altercation about a good seat that each claimed.
Beaver's fat sides fairly shook as he chuckled delightedly over the snub Carcajou had given Jack.
While this bargain still holds, since the day when ammunition first came into the country no Indian has passed this rocky replica of the carcajou without firing a shot at the face of the cliff.
A little Indian boy, who with his mother had been added to our ship's crew at Carcajou Point, appropriates the kidneys, which he proceeds to roast in the ashes.
One after another he named every man he had ever known or even merely met in Carcajou and the surrounding, sparsely settled country.
When they came back to Carcajou again, Stefan was waiting for them with a strong team of horses able easily to negotiate the tote-road.
Two or three other youths of Carcajouonly needed the slightest sign of encouragement, and there was a conductor of the passenger train who used to blow kisses at her, once in a while, from the steps of the Pullman.
The most evident part of his income, however, appeared to be contributed by his Cree wife, who took in the little washing Carcajou indulged in and made the finest moccasins in Ontario.
Heem no fit for valk all vay back to Carcajou now.
She projected to leave Carcajouas soon as she could, and made her parents wish she would, as soon as possible.
One or two of the sturdier ladies at once volunteered to lend further dignity to the proceedings with their presence and could not be dissuaded from joining the Carcajou Vigilantes.
She stopped at a telegraph office where the clerk had to consult a large book before he discovered that messages could be accepted for Carcajou in the Province of Ontario, and wrote out the few words announcing her coming.
As soon as possible he would go over to Carcajou and interview his friend the Swede.
At any rate all the ladies of Carcajou were soon aware of the unusual happening, scenting strange news and perhaps even a bit of scandal.
Papineau he tells me in Carcajou it look like you come ofer here to make drouble for Hugo an' mebbe for dis young leddy.
The people ofCarcajou were good-natured but prone to guffaws.
On a sudden, as if jerked from a catapult, the old carcajou sprang clear out, snatching at the muzzle of the nearest wolf.
The wolf who had been first bitten got up and limped away with surprising agility; but the one in whose throat the old carcajou had fixed her teeth lay motionless where he had fallen, a couple of paces from his dead slayer.
But the next day he set out betimes with rifle, axe and spade, vowed to the extermination of the whole carcajou family, for he knew, as well as the old wolf did, why the carcajou had taken up her quarters in the swamp.
Once assured of his absence, the carcajou devoted all her strength and cunning to making her way into the closed cabin.
During this period, since she had all that even her great appetite could dispose of, the carcajou robbed neither the hunter's traps nor the scant stores of the other animals.
Keeping just beyond the range of his hampered leap, the carcajou now crept slowly around the raging and snarling captive, who kept pouncing at her in futile fury every other moment.
Hunting over a wide range as she did, the carcajouwas unaware till now that a man had come upon her range that winter.
Then the trapper, indignant at seeing so much good meat spoiled, but his sporting instincts stirred to sympathy by the triumph of one beast like the carcajou over a whole wolf-pack, turned his back upon the scene and resumed his tramp.
When he reached the cabin and found that, in spite of all his precautions, the greedy carcajou had outwitted him and broken in, and pillaged his stores, his indignation knew no bounds.
Perceiving this, the carcajou turned her back upon them, climbed farther up the tree to a comfortable crotch, and settled herself indifferently for a nap.
But the carcajou merely stiffened up her fur, in a rage at the prospective interruption of her hunting.
The carcajou came down, sniffed angrily at the clean bones which had been cracked for their marrow, then hurried off on the track of the wolves.
When the carcajou had glared down upon the wolves for several minutes, she ejected the contents of her oil-gland all over the body of the moose, impartially treating her foes to a portion of the nauseating fluid.
They seemed prepared to stay there indefinitely, in the hope of starving out the carcajouand tearing her to pieces.
The carcajou had become an enemy more dangerous to him than all the other beasts of the wild together.
A fearful-looking monster he was as he lay stretched before me, and not unlike the carcajou which had killed our ox at the camp, only smaller.
We could not afford to let the carcajou make a meal of him, as in our log-hauling and other labours he was of great service to us.
Several signs tell the trapper that the marauder is the carcajou or wolverine.
The trap experience would have frightened any other animals a week's run from man's tracks; but the wolverine grows bolder, and the trapper knows he will find his snares robbed until carcajou has been killed.
New tracks marked the snow and showed where the carcajouhad dragged it away.
Two famous places for drive hunting in olden days were Point Carcajou on Peace River, and the Grand Detour on Great Slave River.
Indignant at the outrage, the old Dog-rib determined to hunt the carcajou and destroy it.
Well, there was that lady who left Carcajou Point with you.
At Carcajou Point, when they had almost reached Enterprise, they heard the legend of the White Medicine Man off on the unknown Swan River, and they decided to avoid Enterprise and hit straight across the prairie.
Unfortunately he couldn't take them by surprise, for Carcajou was on the other side of the river from Enterprise, and Stonor must wait on the shore until they came over after him.
Towards sunset he approached the shore of the river oppositeCarcajou Point, but as he didn't wish to arrive at night, he camped within shelter of the woods.
If he comes right down he'll be here at three forty-five; and if he has to land at Carcajou for wood it will be near supper-time.
It was none other than Hooliam, the handsome young blackguard he had deported from Carcajou Point two months before.
How did Doctor Imbrie get to Carcajou in the first place?
Was Doctor Imbrie waiting for you at Carcajou Point?
When the hour was up, the entire population of Carcajou Point gathered on the shore to witness Hooliam's departure.
I built a little raft and floated down the Spirit River to Carcajou Point.
Breaking a road for three hundred and fifty mile, and not a stopping-house the whole way till he gets to the Beaver Indians at Carcajou Point.
At dawn of a morning in May, Stonor, without having advertised his intention, set off for Carcajou on horseback.
He finally, as he thought, succeeded in locating the source of the infection at Carcajou Point.
Stonor, studying her, reflected that this was no doubt the woman he had seen with Imbrie at Carcajou Point two months before.
The fierce carcajou had wound himself around the tree, ready to dart upon the hunter; but the hunter's eyes were not closed, and the carcajou quivered on the point of my spear.
At Peel's River, on one occasion, a very old carcajou discovered my marten road, on which I had nearly a hundred and fifty traps.
The gun was concealed in some low bushes, but the bait was so placed that the carcajou must see it on his way up the bank.
I came to the conclusion that that carcajou ought to live, as he must be something at least human, if not worse.
Eighty-three miles below Fort Norman, or six and one-half miles above Sans Sault rapids, Carcajou river empties its waters into the Mackenzie from the west.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carcajou" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
