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166 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
and other suitable skins are made into deer snares and parchment
for windows, w h i l e the tendons of a l l are s p l i t and
twisted into fine and excellent thread for general use.
The remarks made under B. caribou i n respect to the
number and appearance of the young at birth, etc., are
equally applicable to this species. I may here remark that
albinos are very rare among the northern deer. I n 1886 I
obtained a fine example, w h i c h was forwarded to the S m i t h sonian
I n s t i t u t i o n at Washington. It had been k i l l e d the
previous winter by an I n d i a n near F o r t Chipewyan, L a ke
Athabasca, but, although I heard of a few instances elsewhere,
I t h i n k this was the o n l y one I ever saw i n the interior.
The Company generally exports a number of reindeer
skins i n a parchmentary and Indian- dressed state, w h i c h seldom
realize more than their actual cost. I n the years 1902
and 1903, respectively, they sold i n L o n d o n 321 and 267
reindeer skins.
Doctor Armstrong, of the Investigator, writes that besides
several white bears, musk oxen, and other polar animals
herein referred to, the hunters of that ship, w h i l e w i n t e r i ng
i n P r i n c e of Wales S t r a i t , saw a number of reindeer, though
they f a i l e d to secure even one. I n M e r c y B a y , l a t i t u d e 76" 6'
n o r t h and longitude 117° 55' west, however, where i t was
finally abandoned on J u n e 3, 1853, the total number of
reindeer k i l l e d between October, 1851, and A p r i l , 1853, was
112. After reaching M e l v i l l e Island, about latitude 75°
north and longitude 109° west, the doctor, w i t h several officers
and men o f H e r M a j e s t y ' s A r c t i c ships Resolute ( Capt
a i n K e l l e t t ) and Intrepid ( Captain M c C l i n t o c k ) , shot a
large number of reindeer and several musk oxen, the meat
of which weighed over 10,000 pounds. After four seasons'
experience, Doctor Armstrong came to the conclusion that
the reindeer i n h a b i t i n g B a r i n g I s l a n d do not migrate to the
southward thereof. In M e r c y B a y a n d P r i n c e of Wales
S t r a i t many i n d i v i d u a l s and small herds were seen and a
number shot d u r i n g the severest months of the w i n t e r . " I n
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| OCR | 166 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN and other suitable skins are made into deer snares and parchment for windows, w h i l e the tendons of a l l are s p l i t and twisted into fine and excellent thread for general use. The remarks made under B. caribou i n respect to the number and appearance of the young at birth, etc., are equally applicable to this species. I may here remark that albinos are very rare among the northern deer. I n 1886 I obtained a fine example, w h i c h was forwarded to the S m i t h sonian I n s t i t u t i o n at Washington. It had been k i l l e d the previous winter by an I n d i a n near F o r t Chipewyan, L a ke Athabasca, but, although I heard of a few instances elsewhere, I t h i n k this was the o n l y one I ever saw i n the interior. The Company generally exports a number of reindeer skins i n a parchmentary and Indian- dressed state, w h i c h seldom realize more than their actual cost. I n the years 1902 and 1903, respectively, they sold i n L o n d o n 321 and 267 reindeer skins. Doctor Armstrong, of the Investigator, writes that besides several white bears, musk oxen, and other polar animals herein referred to, the hunters of that ship, w h i l e w i n t e r i ng i n P r i n c e of Wales S t r a i t , saw a number of reindeer, though they f a i l e d to secure even one. I n M e r c y B a y , l a t i t u d e 76" 6' n o r t h and longitude 117° 55' west, however, where i t was finally abandoned on J u n e 3, 1853, the total number of reindeer k i l l e d between October, 1851, and A p r i l , 1853, was 112. After reaching M e l v i l l e Island, about latitude 75° north and longitude 109° west, the doctor, w i t h several officers and men o f H e r M a j e s t y ' s A r c t i c ships Resolute ( Capt a i n K e l l e t t ) and Intrepid ( Captain M c C l i n t o c k ) , shot a large number of reindeer and several musk oxen, the meat of which weighed over 10,000 pounds. After four seasons' experience, Doctor Armstrong came to the conclusion that the reindeer i n h a b i t i n g B a r i n g I s l a n d do not migrate to the southward thereof. In M e r c y B a y a n d P r i n c e of Wales S t r a i t many i n d i v i d u a l s and small herds were seen and a number shot d u r i n g the severest months of the w i n t e r . " I n |
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