Then, after a dinner ofcaribou meat and coffee, they wheeled the plane over the gravel to the foot of the great gray granite obelisk.
A dozen rods from the camp, they came upon the guide and the Indians standing around a large bull caribou whose head boasted a magnificent pair of antlers.
But the caribou appears to be the only animal which migrates between summer and winter ranges, that is, which makes a long journey of hundreds of miles; as much change of place as made by many species of migrating birds.
Moose and caribou are experts in taking care of themselves during long winters of deep snows.
I imagine they went through a terrible ordeal in the more temperate zones farther south before they consented to be pushed into the frozen lands of Canada, and then, following the caribou in the summer, to mush to the Arctic sea.
No chance to knock over a caribou or a moose, and fill up the empty larder!
It consisted of hard-tack, coffee, and some caribou meat cooked in regular camp style.
We fed, as I said before, on my caribou meat, and then came the wild-fowl and the streams opened up for fishing.
But at the same time, he vowed that, sure as the caribou had not all passed, he would dine on caribou roast before long.
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.
But, though he hunted far, he found no fresh caribou tracks.
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.
To land at a point other than that trampled by the caribou involved great risk, for there was undoubtedly a thick coating of drifted snow on the lake's surface.
This time he seemed determined to meet the shock squarely according to the rules of the game--which apparently demand that the prowess of a caribou bull shall be determined by his pushing power.
Amazed at this departure from the usual caribou tactics, and smarting with the anguish of that punishing stroke, the white bull whirled in his tracks, and charged again, blind with fury.
In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the most hot-headed and powerful bull of the caribou will shrink from trying conclusions with a full grown black bear.
After some minutes of this feinting, the cariboustood still, deliberating some new move.
And to this spring, when the moon of the falling leaves brought in the season of love and war, the caribou bulls were wont to come, delighting to form their wallow in the pungent, salty mud.
When the bulls of the cariboukin fight each other, the weapons of their sole dependence are their antlers.
The two, probably, had never seen each other before; but in rutting season all caribou bulls are enemies at sight.
This type (Rangifer tarandus arcticus) might possibly be domesticated; not so the larger and much wilder Caribou woodland reindeer of the more southern and western parts of the Dominion, which dislikes the neighbourhood of man.
There were the Chippewayan Indians[8] round about Lake Athapaska, and the Caribou Eaters or Ethen-eldeli between Lake Athapaska and Reindeer Lake.
Footnote 1: The first Frenchmen visiting North America, and seeing the caribou without their horns, thought they were a kind of wild ass.
When questioned Caribou would not emphatically declare that there had not been a star or a white stripe in the forehead of Johnson's horse.
Caribou is perfectly honest in his belief," Carney declared.
As to the club foot they had only Carney's guess, whereas Caribou had never seen any club foot on Johnson's horse.
Poor old Caribou was thirsting for revenge; in his narrowed hate he would have been satisfied if the party had pulled a perfect stranger off a passing train and lynched him; it would have been a quid pro quo.
There ain't no thinkin' 'bout it," Caribouanswered with asperity.
He turned to Caribou Dave, asking, "What makes you think this is Johnson's pack horse?
Then Caribou gets a hunch and goes back and peeks over the cliff," Miner Graham added, for old David had stopped speaking to bite viciously at a black plug of tobacco to hide his feelings.
Caribou is just an ord'nary liar, 'cordin' to Judge Carney.
These things caused one or two of the men to waver, for if it were not Johnson's cayuse, if Caribou were mistaken, there was no direct evidence to connect Harry Holt with the murder.
I dunno just what makes me look there for Fourteen-foot, Bulldog," Caribou Dave explained.
That skunk hid it," Caribou declared; "he just kept enough to get out with.
To man his boats, to hunt caribou for him, and to furnish temporary spouses, the whaler picked up and attached to his ménage the Eskimo from the mainland in little bunches en famille.
Caribou go north in spring and south in autumn, as the birds do; and, unlike the seals, the female caribou form the advance line.
The proper caper for him would be the caribou rampant with a whitefish flotsam.
In October or November these Chipewyans will meet the migrating caribou on the northern side of Athabasca Lake.
The Scriptural sheep and goats become caribou and coyotes, and the celestial Lamb is typified by the baby seal with its coat of shimmering whiteness.
Fifteen years ago in the last days of July, in latitude 62° 15' North, the Tyrrell Brothers saw a herd of caribou which they estimate contained over one hundred thousand individuals.
Neither moose nor caribouwas seen, and on and on they went.
In 1877 a line of caribou crossed Great Slave Lake near Fort Rae on the ice.
Broadly speaking, the north shore of Athabasca Lake to-day forms the southern limit of the caribou range, while the Mackenzie River makes a natural dividing-line between eastward and westward branches of the caribou family.
The male caribou never reach the coast, but join their wives and make the acquaintance of their babies at the end of July.
Interesting indeed is the life-history of the Barren Ground caribou (rangifer articus), whose migrant hordes to-day rival in number the bands of the dead and gone buffalo.
Whales follow their annual migration as regularly as do moose and caribou on land, the seal and salmon in the Pacific.
However, although references to temporary craft covered with caribou skin exist in early accounts of the fur trade, there is no record of their form or details of their construction.
Lines of Caribou Eskimo kayak, Canada, in American Museum of Natural History.
Both caribou hides and seal skins are used to cover the Caribou Eskimo kayak.
Neither the Caribou nor the Netsilik kayaks are very seaworthy and their construction is inferior.
Throughout the eastern Arctic seal skin was the preferred covering though caribou skin was occasionally used by the caribou Eskimos in the central Arctic.
The Caribou Eskimo kayak preserved in the American Museum of Natural History is the best example of the type found.
In these areas, the emergency canoe was usually built of caribou skin.
The skins are treated with seal oil and caribou fat, and when the whaling umiak is taken ashore it is usually stored on a stage to keep dogs from destroying the skin cover.
These kayaks are used only in hunting caribou at stream crossings and are not employed in sealing.
It may be remarked, also that of the caribou (Cervus tarandus) there are two marked varieties, that may almost be regarded in the light of species.
A similar identity exists between the caribou of Canada and the reindeer of Northern Europe--they are both the Cervus tarandus of Pliny.
In this case the game is the caribou or reindeer, but no rope fence would serve to impound these.
In the Yukon the quinnat runs as far as Caribou Crossing and Lake Bennett, 2250 miles.
In the Yukon a few ascend to Caribou Crossing and Lake Bennett, 2250 miles.
In the tent the mother will be making mukluks, or fur boots, while the older daughter beats out and twists the caribou sinew into that strong thread with which the furs and boots are sewed.
He is less likely to permit familiarity than the caribou and remains where he is inconspicuous.
But for mountain sheep, caribouand moose ranging over wide areas this section is unsurpassed.
The caribou roam (in herds) and feed almost entirely on grass.
The caribou is unquestionably the prettiest animal in Alaska.
Yes, there's plenty of game now, geese and duck everywhere along the streams, caribou plentiful.
Sometimes it would be caribou or reindeer, probably an escape from some Eskimo herd, which would be surprised standing in the water, and breaking for the timber on the bank at their approach.
They don't look like the caribou we've run across along the streams.
Everybody began to dance then, and Young Cariboulet the shavings catch fire.
Soon the boy heard someone calling, away down the valley, and the caribou started to run up through the cañon.
Young Caribou had a fine headdress of pine shavings fastened to his horns.
Now the young man stayed at that place and hunted caribou and dried the meat until it made a huge pile.
They began singing, and Young Caribou and Muskrat began their dancing.
Then the brothers followed up the Bonaparte River until they came to a chasm which is now near the old fifty-nine-mile post, on the old Caribou road.
As we had only a few things to get before starting out for the famous caribou country between the head waters of the Hole, the Askandoga and the Blood Vein rivers, we were not delayed long at this place.
Gunther's Sons, the furriers, exhibited one caribou with antlers 50 inches long, of the barren ground type, with 43 points.
He had followed it only a few hundred yards when he saw one of the caribou lying down.
In fact, there were millions of tracks, but, curiously enough, no caribou were to be seen.
One morning, shortly after the first caribou had been seen, Keller, who had been quite sick, was unable longer to tolerate the smoke of the tepee, and took a little walk with his rifle close around our camp.
The caribou feed upon this moss, while the moose, on the other hand, are fond of the tender sprouts of the red and gray willow.
On going further, he found the other caribou shot exactly where he had aimed at it, some twenty yards distant from the first one.
Until he has seen them, one is likely to imagine that the caribou is an ungainly, misshapen animal.
In general it may be said that the caribou of this region, known as the woodland caribou, live in the wooded districts during the summer and autumn, but in the winter time go to the higher land.
Very few people have any idea of the immense numbers of caribou which are found in the great tract of country to the west of Hudson Bay.
We saw a few caribou tracks, and brought home with us a curious caribou antler, which we found in the woods.
To such an extremity had we been reduced that Mac and Stewart assiduously chewed the greasy strips of caribou hide which did duty as moccasin laces, while I endeavoured, but with little success, to swallow some dry coffee.
Rounding a bluff, we saw, nestling in the shadow of a great pine-forest, an array of mud huts and tepees covered with caribou skins.
Two sleighs had started from Bennet station, and the drifts on Caribou proving unduly deterrent, one sleigh load had been temporarily abandoned.
There's jist the sma'est bit o' caribou ye could imagine in the hale hoose," snorted Mac indignantly.
I could not yet understand why a tent and stores should have been left at Caribou Crossing, one of the most gloomy spots throughout the whole course of the Yukon.
If anything edible had been left atCaribou Crossing we were determined to commandeer it.
We must reachCaribou Crossing to-night, boys," I said.
The candle was quickly forthcoming, and the flap of the tent discovered; it was laced tightly with long strips of caribou hide, and so was not easily located in the darkness.
The Caribou flies have driven the hunters on board; Tom Lincoln, who is especially attacked by them, was actually covered with blood, and looked as if he had had a gouging fight with some rough Kentuckians.
After much parley, we engaged two hunters to go as guides into the interior to procure Caribou and Hares, for which they were to receive a dollar a day each.
They are the only dogs which at all equal the Caribouin speed.
In the early part of March the Caribou leave the hills and come to the sea-shore to feed on kelp and sea-grasses cut off by the ice and cast on the shore.
At certain seasons the caribou were supposed to cross this part of the river in vast herds on their way to different feeding-grounds, the current being very shallow at this point.
The wolves easily cut out the weak or tired-out caribou and devoured them.
The caribou have now found less populous territories in which to range.
The trek of caribou from the Tanana River valley to the head of White River consumed more than ninety days in passing the head of the Forty-Mile valley--at least a thousand a day passing during that period.
Caribou Crossing is a lonely and desolate cluster of tents and cabins huddling in the sand on the water's edge.
A fee of ten dollars permits the shipment of a single head or trophy of caribou or sheep; and one of five, that of goat, deer, or brown bear.
The voyage from Caribou Crossing to Atlin is by way of a chain of blue lakes, pearled by snow mountains.
No wild caribou had been seen, but joy suddenly filled their hearts when at last they came to the spot where the river they followed forked.
Then like a flash the truth came to her, this was not a caribou but a reindeer, a domestic reindeer.
It appeared that the poor fellow had gone up to Caribou Mountain to shoot some big game, and had taken the half-breed along as a guide.
The third day after they had made their semi-permanent camp Rivers took the boy with him on a geological trip back to Caribou Pass, the most practicable opening in the entire Alaskan Range.
There had been such a lot of caribou about, that the boy felt he ought at least to get one.
The boy had been careful, throughout his crawl, to change the sight on his rifle to the distance he estimated he was from the game, and so, when the caribou stopped, he was ready.
Before we could turn, there was the gorge of Caribou Pass, savage and dark, visible to the bottom.
Our first day's route was through the Gill-brook woods and up one of its branches to the head of Caribou Pass, which separates Nipple Top from Colvin.
Before we reached the bottom of Caribou Pass, the water burst out from the rocks in a clear stream that was as cold as ice.
They had missed it but were, nevertheless, meeting small bands of caribou and making a good killing, as the quantities of meat hanging everywhere to dry for winter use bore evidence.
This was done by mixing cariboumoss with water, applying the mixture to the mud where most needed, and permitting it to freeze, which it did instantly.
I ran down to the canoe where I found Easton in wild excitement, waving the gun and calling for cartridges, and half-way across the bay saw the heads of two caribou swimming toward the opposite shore.
We told them of the evidences we had seen of the caribou migration having taken place between Michikamau and Michikamats, and they were mightily interested.
There were no fresh caribou tracks this side of the Nascaupee River, and but one duck and one spruce partridge had been killed.
A caribou had passed toward the larger lake that very morning.
The one exception is on Caribou Ridge, which is capped by a much altered gabbro.
All along the point and leading back into the bush, were fresh caribou tracks, where the animals came out to get the benefit of the lake breezes and avoid the flies, which torment them terribly.
Presently the caribou turned from the river and showed itself on the burned plateau above, two hundred yards from Pete.
The caribou hunt over, he was to have returned across country to the St. Lawrence or retrace his steps to Northwest River Post, whichever might seem advisable.
Once we saw a caribou swimming far ahead of us, but he discovered our approach and took to the timber before we were within shooting distance of him.
I see caribou over there, close to water, run fast, try get lee side so he don't smell me.
Now it was down stream and we glided swiftly along, arriving at the confluence of the Crane and Caribou just before twilight and found smiling faces and a good supper awaiting our return.
Here signs told us that threecaribou had crossed the stream, there muddy water was still trickling into the hoofprint of a moose, and yonder a bear had been fishing.
About half way between sunrise and midday I came upon a lake, and there I discovered not only the same herd of caribou and the same wolves, but the deer were running at full speed with the wolves in full chase behind them.
Also there were moose and caribou horns lying about, and bundles of Indian-made snowshoes hanging by wires from the rafters, and in one corner kegs of dried beaver castors.
On account of its wide-spreading and concave hoofs the Woodland caribou does not have to "yard" as other deer do in winter time, for thus provided with natural snowshoes, the caribou can pass over the deepest snow with little trouble.
Noon overtook us near the mouth of Caribou River, up which we were to ascend on the first half of our journey to Oo-koo-hoo's hunting grounds.
By the evening of the first day, as good fortune would have it, we baited among many signs of caribou, and not only were fresh caribou tracks to be seen, but also those of wolves, for the latter were trailing the deer.
Then, as caribou usually do, the whole band began leaping three or four feet into the air--much as they sometimes do when hit by a bullet.
For safety's sake the cariboucarefully avoided entering the woods, even rounding every point rather than cut across among the trees.
In the pouches of the caribou coat was only pemmican; but my hand crushed against a softness in the inner waistcoat.
The caribou began to rove aimlessly for a time, then they were off with a rush that bare gave us chance to escape the army of clicking hoofs.
Sea-birds caught the first breath of storm and wheeled landward with shrill calls, and once La Chesnaye and I made out through the ship's glass a vast herd of caribou running to sniff the gale from the crest of an inland hill.
Two or three times the caribou tossed up their heads sniffing the air suspiciously, and La Chesnaye fell to cursing lest the wolf-pack should stampede the herd.
We had fallen to a ravine where the vast caribou herds had wandered from the storm.
The best fur is caribou skin and it is warmer and lighter than a blanket of wool.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caribou" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
