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224 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
R i v e r , Dunvegan, Hudson's Hope, and St. John, with other
Edmonton fur- trade stations, to constitute the Company's
new district of Peace R i v e r , which, for outfit 1889, turned
out 500 black, 67 brown, and 38 gray bears. Eor the five
years 1885 to 1889, N e w Caledonia D i s t r i c t , British Columbia,
supplied 1,602 assorted bears, and i n 1889, 333 black,
11 brown and 21 gray, as against 412 black, 22 brown, and
20 gray shipped the year previous. I may mention in conclusion
that the E n g l i s h R i v e r D i s t r i c t , next on the south- east
of Athabasca, traded 283 black and 64 brown i n outfit 1889,
and in 1890, 399 black, 120 brown, and 1 gray bear skins.
I ' O L A I : BEAJi— Thalarctos maritimus ( Phipps).
W i t h the exception of a few trade skins annually received
from thv Eskimos d u r i n g our five years' residence at Fort
Anderson, we secured but three assorted examples of this
bear, which were forwarded to Washington. One of them,
the best, was shot i n Liverpool B a y , and the other two, I
think, were k i l l e d near the outlet of the Wilmot Horton
R i v e r i n the F r a n k l i n B a y . The Eskimo who brought us
the latter stated that he and a companion were watching for
passing ducks and geese i n a small sheltered, but open, stand,
which they had built w i t h blocks or slabs of hard frozen
snow close to the shore, when they saw a large white bear
coming from the sea i n their direction. They permitted it
to almost reach them before one of them fired at and
wounded it very severely, while the other soon finished it
w i t h his spear. The second animal was k i l l e d later in the
same s p r i n g ( 1865) in a s i m i l a r manner.
The writer of these notes entered the service of the Hudson's
B a y Company on June 25, 1852. We embarked in
the Company's sailing ship Prince of ~\ Yales ( Capt. David
H e r d ) at Stromness, Orkney, on the 3rd of July, and
reached Y o r k Factory, Hudson Bay, on the 15th day of
August following. W h i l e retarded i n the navigation of Hudson
Strait by large fields of d r i f t i n g ice, a full- grown polar
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| OCR | 224 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN R i v e r , Dunvegan, Hudson's Hope, and St. John, with other Edmonton fur- trade stations, to constitute the Company's new district of Peace R i v e r , which, for outfit 1889, turned out 500 black, 67 brown, and 38 gray bears. Eor the five years 1885 to 1889, N e w Caledonia D i s t r i c t , British Columbia, supplied 1,602 assorted bears, and i n 1889, 333 black, 11 brown and 21 gray, as against 412 black, 22 brown, and 20 gray shipped the year previous. I may mention in conclusion that the E n g l i s h R i v e r D i s t r i c t , next on the south- east of Athabasca, traded 283 black and 64 brown i n outfit 1889, and in 1890, 399 black, 120 brown, and 1 gray bear skins. I ' O L A I : BEAJi— Thalarctos maritimus ( Phipps). W i t h the exception of a few trade skins annually received from thv Eskimos d u r i n g our five years' residence at Fort Anderson, we secured but three assorted examples of this bear, which were forwarded to Washington. One of them, the best, was shot i n Liverpool B a y , and the other two, I think, were k i l l e d near the outlet of the Wilmot Horton R i v e r i n the F r a n k l i n B a y . The Eskimo who brought us the latter stated that he and a companion were watching for passing ducks and geese i n a small sheltered, but open, stand, which they had built w i t h blocks or slabs of hard frozen snow close to the shore, when they saw a large white bear coming from the sea i n their direction. They permitted it to almost reach them before one of them fired at and wounded it very severely, while the other soon finished it w i t h his spear. The second animal was k i l l e d later in the same s p r i n g ( 1865) in a s i m i l a r manner. The writer of these notes entered the service of the Hudson's B a y Company on June 25, 1852. We embarked in the Company's sailing ship Prince of ~\ Yales ( Capt. David H e r d ) at Stromness, Orkney, on the 3rd of July, and reached Y o r k Factory, Hudson Bay, on the 15th day of August following. W h i l e retarded i n the navigation of Hudson Strait by large fields of d r i f t i n g ice, a full- grown polar |
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