The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-21

turned to the main camp in time fer
breakfast. We found the Meads had
tired of Improbable hunting and had
decided to take a long canoe trip.
We had plenty of guides, SO it was
possible to divide the party, each part
doing that which suited them best.
They took two guides and a large canoe
and started north. They went clear to
Lake Abbatibi and Mrs. Mead was the
second white woman who had ever been
there. They had the finest bass fish
ing Of the whole trip. They kept ac-
count Of the bass they caught, and it
averaged thirty pounds an hour. On
their return they brought a fine lot of
fish back with them for the entire
party.
Visit Hudson Bay Post.
Tbs Meads visited the Hudson Bay
post. There they saw the wild In
dians," as the tribes about the post are
called by those that live farther south
and nearer civilization. The Hudson
Bay company sells these Indians r.ro-
visions and supplies in the fall, and
they go with their families away to the
north, close 10 the polar regions, and
remain all winter, trapping and hunt
ing. Then in the spring they return to
the trading posts and loaf around all
summer, doing nothing but a little fish
ing and hunting the Mcads had seen
70 large game
We remained in The main camp long
enough to take one good hearty meal
anG then said good hys 10 its comforts
We had gone to the country to be with
Our friends, but strange as it may seem
we saw them 0nV twice during our en-.
tire hunt OF sixteen days.
Able to Take Little Food.
After breakfast in TIA camp we went
10 Gull lake to hunt. 1 was unGerfed
and weak, AMI as ne had to t.ave.
art we had - tent az n. cooking
utensils save the frying pan and the
pail.
On our first trip, after a day of pc
culiar hardships. Jim. one of the
guides said to me:
I'VE got over here all right. Yes, I
didn't t'ink you could go like that"
1t seemed like getting home TO reach
our old camp in Gull lake We had
been there longer than in any other
spot. The boys had made a windbreak
of balsam boughs and birch bark about
the fire TO protect us from the wind.
They had also made shelter for them
selves of birch bark and balsam boughs
which they called their brush heap"
That day I killed my first moose.
Kills Her First Moose.
Four of us left the camp in the canoe
about $50 O'Clock in the. evening and
padded to a creek called Quacking
Duck creek. Whenever we approached
the creek 4 big duck would fly up,
quacking like bloody murder"
Then Jim called" with his big birch
bark trumpet. / had my field glass
and was looking at the distant shore of
the lake to see if / could see any game,
or any signs of the moose we were
calling. About two miles away from
US 1 thought 1 saw something come out
on the gravelly beach, and at the same
instant Alfred, another guide, saw it
too.
Alfred whispered to Jim that it was
caribou. l could see it plainly and it
seemed to be a big one. l could see
its horns and they looked enormous
It kept running up and down the beach
as though it was excited. I think it
was pursued by timber wolves We
could hear the great gray timber wolves
howl every night in the distance. Jim
decided that the caribou would prob
ably take to the water and try to land
on point of land not far from us. So
we started down the lake to try to get
a shot as he swan the bay. We pad
died fast and silently like a steam
launch When we got there, there was