Kansas City daily journal., 1895-08-30
VAST HERDS OF CARIHOu.


nS lhtck as Ever Bunnlo"s Were.
The Barren Ground caribou now in
habits the Great slave lake country,
and Just eastward thereof, not only in
thousands, but tens of thousands, and II rs
InSsi IN S sajr to S9y M GWynILg1s W of & &5R2n]amIs ]
himself IN the very midst of the vast
throng of caribou that were migrating
southwark, lie was moved TO doubt
whether the buffalo had over existed in
greater numbers. Think of IT, Vast herds
OF big game animals, ut for, food, alive
day! Why this oversight on the part of
the Eamr-hutchors? Where are the hide
army of greedy Eame-ktllers generally?
The reason for the unsaughtered condi-
tion OF the carbon herds of the far North
j.. j. that JaeE Frost owns the baTren
considered bad medicine As usual the
inhabitants of caribouland slaughter the
herds with sickening wastofulncss when
eyer they get an opportunity; but thus far
the carbon is holding its own fairly we'll.
save in Alaska.
Mr. Warburton Pike SAYS that in sum-
mcr they keep TO the true Barren Grounds,
but in the autumn, when their feeding
grounds are covered with snow, they seek
the hanging moss in the woods. "Frum
what could gather from the Yellow
knife Indians, and from my own personal
experience. 1t Is late in October that the
great bands of caribou, commonly known
as La Foule. mass upon the edge of the
afforded by the stronger growth of pine
farther southwark" OF this great annual
migration here is what plucky Mr. Pike
actually saw on Lake CamscI about
sixty miles north of the eastern end of
Great Slave lake. 1t reads like a fairy
tale; but nevertheless the account is un-
Scattered bands of caribou were al
most always In sight from the top of the
numbers till the morning of october 20
uSST, when, little Baptiste, who had gone
2r wh h% sTI T2k a fone % up 6efq5e @%F h
throng The throngy Even in the lodge
we could hear the curious clatter made by
a band of travelling caribou. La foule had
really come. ana during its passage of
six days | was able to realize what an
extraordinary number of these animals
still roam the Barren Grounds
He thus describes the migration:
From the ridge we mad a splendid view
Mackay lake was alive with the moving
beasts, while the ic" seemed to be dotted
all over with black islands, and still away
on the north shore. with the aid of glasses
we could see them coming like regiments
on the march. In every direction we could
hear the grunting noise that the caribou
was broken into broad roads, and found
II useless to try to estimate thr number
Campment. We We're just on the western
edge of their passage and afterward we
some forty miles to the west We're at this
very time in the last straits of starvation,
only saving their lives by a hasty retreat
TO the woods. This is a common danger in
the autumn, as the caribou, coming in
from the Barren Ground. join together
till they reach the thick timber,
The caribou, as is usually the case when
they are in large numbers We're very
tame. and on several occasions | found
myself right in the midst of a band. with
splendid chance 10 pick out any that
seemed IN good condition. Not
withstanding all the tail stories that are
told of their numbers Cthe bunaloeS), 1
cannot believe that the herds on the
Of the carbou,"-AuEust St Nicholas.