By Shann's side the wolverines were moving restlessly.
Shann hoped that with the wolverines to aid they could go back to hunting soon.
Waves lapped, then flowed in a rapidly thickening stream, puddling out about the shell as the wolverines drew back, snarling.
The wolverines feasted on the greenish-white flesh, but he could not bring himself to sample it, climbing to the heights in search of eggs, and making a happy find of a niche filled with the edible moss-fungi.
He found a break in the cliff wall which was climbable, and he coaxed the wolverines after him.
Feeling the raft sway and begin to spin, the wolverines whined, crouched in the middle of what now seemed a very frail craft.
But of Thorvald and the wolverines there were no signs.
There had been no lack of hunting in the narrow valleys through which they had threaded, so both men and wolverines were well fed.
But that did not mean that somewhere back in the wild lands into which Shann was heading there were no heretofore unknowns, perhaps slyer and as vicious as the wolverines when they were aroused to rage.
The wolverines had wasted no time in sampling the contents of a wealth of nesting places beginning just above the high-water mark, cupping two to four tough-shelled eggs in each.
I have an idea that the detectives will soon get tired of wandering around in the hills and meeting grizzly bears, and rattlesnakes, and wolverines every half hour.
Besides, he went on, "I want to get those hides before the wolverines get them, or any one sneaks them off.
To the wolverines it was everything, a whole wireless message in the universal code of the wild, and they had read it in their sleep.
No sound made the wolverines as they rolled along in Indian file, except for the soft whisper of the snow underfoot.
They had failed to avenge the reindeer, and the wolverines were safe.
Putting a deer en cache means merely protecting it against the wolves and still more destructive wolverines by heavy loads of wood or stones; the latter animal however sometimes digs underneath the pile and renders the precautions abortive.
The tracks of foxes, wolves, wolverines and martens were very numerous.
And who could say what the little foxes, the wolves andwolverines would do to that dead moose during the night?
The part we can't carry away on our further journeys we can hide up in the rocks where foxes and wolverines can't get at it.
At times there was an interruption in the clamor, but the wolverines did not appear to relax their vigilance in the least.
Still it would have fared ill with the dog but for Shasta, for the other wolverines would have sprung upon him and destroyed him before he could have escaped.
The vivid recollection of the wolverines gave him this fear and finally induced him to leave the place and seek shelter.
Several times, when some of thewolverines came too close, he made a spring at them, and they snapped back.
The camp-fire was kept burning unremittingly until morning, and the wolverines as unceasingly continued their clamor, so that none of the parties secured a moment's sleep.
The dead wolverines were pounced upon by their survivors and torn instantly to shreds, and even devoured with as much avidity as if they were Terror and his human companions.
The boys kept up their loading and firing among the wolverines until they had slain over a dozen.
It was Custer and the Wolverines who flew like bull dogs straight at the throat of the foes; who blocked his headlong charge; who pinned him to the ground while like wolves their comrade troops rushed upon his flanks.
In a moment theWolverines and the Palmetto men were face to face and the lines very close.
It was a case of hunted turned hunter and the Wolverines more than balanced the account charged up against Breckinridge for the affair at Shepherdstown, August 25.
This was done to destroy the scent and thus save the "cache" from being discovered by prowling wolves and wolverines that would in all probability visit the camp not long after the hunters had left.
In another place, where they had dressed a caribou killed by Oo-koo-hoo, and had left the meat overnight for the women and boys to haul in next day, wolverines had found it and defiled it in their usual way.
Wolverines frequent most the timber country just south of the Barren Grounds, where they are often found travelling in bands.
While on our way that afternoon the old hunter again discovered signs of wolverines and it worried him, for it meant not only the destruction of many of his traps, but also the ruining of the pelts of some of the animals he might catch.
Otters, muskrats, and beavers swam its inrushing creeks; wolverines prowled its rocky glens, and nightly concerts of howling wolves echoed along its shores.
Later, as the winter wore on, the subject of wolverines was rarely mentioned as it did not add to the cheerfulness of Oo-koo-hoo's otherwise happy mood.
Eef I keel heem I would geeve de bodee to de lynx and wolverines out in de snow.
If I had killed him would I not have hidden him somewhere in the snow where the starving lynx and wolverines would have done the rest?
It was high time for his return to the camp in the Salmon country, to his precious cache of meat, which would attract lynxes and wolverines for miles around.
Back at his old camp, Marcel found that the fish-hook necklace with which he had circled each of the peeled spruce uprights of his cache had baffled the wolverines and lynxes lured for miles by the odor of meat.
These he set at the carcasses he had shot, for foxes, lynxes and wolverines were drawn from the four winds to his kill.
We robbed from the wolverines and ravens, and, signalling to Paul and Francois, made a meal of the half-putrid flesh in a little patch of willow scrub that happened to be close at hand.
Then there are the ever-hungry wolves and wolverines that hang with such pertinacity on the travelling herds and rely upon them entirely for subsistence.
Here again we expected to find a cache, as some meat had been left when we killed the first caribou in the autumn, but the wolverines had taken it.
Mackinlay and myself for once got ahead of the wolverines on this occasion.
There were plenty of signs that he had done so; but the wolverines had been before us, and a few shreds of meat lying at the foot of the stage told the story plainly enough.
I scarcely credit the statement I have often heard made, that the wolverines will kill a full-grown caribou, although it is possible that they may attack the young ones.
Being then entirely surrounded by water, they are fairly safe from the prowling wild animals that hunt them as their prey, as wolverinesand wild cats dislike the water.
Here it was safe from the prowling wolverines and other animals.
By each person keeping one of these well in front of him, they were all able to crawl up to positions where they could distinctly see the tree with the wild cats ensconced on its large branches and the wolverines at the foot of it.
Then they were informed that just over the brow of the steep hill before them a couple of wolverines had chased a couple of wild cats up into a large tree.
Continuing on their trail, still going back, they found that the wolverines had come directly from the spot on the dam where the beavers had been captured, as has been described.
They seemed to be so glad to see us coming to their help that they made a furious attack upon the two that were upon the rocks, and some of them were taught that wolverines have sharp teeth and know well how to use them.
The idea of allowing five wolverines to thus steal such a march upon them was too much for even the patient, kind-hearted Memotas.
The cats had each captured a muskrat, and were making off with them when the wolverines came along and tried to rob them of their prey.
They noticed that when the wolverines were not active in their movements the wild cats kept eating bits off the muskrats.
At the first nest the boys found that the wild cats and wolverines had been there before them and had cleared out every muskrat.
The wolverines must have got a good start, as it was a long time before we found any trace of them.
We all know that wolverines are cunning animals, but when the fact is known that there were so many of us in the camp at the time that five beavers were stolen from our sleds--why, great will be their ridicule and contempt for us.
Mr Ross, however, decided that just as soon as the wolverines could be skinned, and dinner prepared and eaten, the home journey must be resumed.
The writer of this account is Captain Elliot Cones:-- To the trapper the wolverines are equally annoying.
We now made smaller caches, and in the nighttime it was a small matter to go back on the trail we had broken and change them in such way that one might deem the wolverines the thieves.
Taking advantage of neighboring pines, he worked rapidly, and Ruth watched him make a cache similar to those sometimes used by hunters to preserve their meat from the wolverines and dogs.
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