Identifier: sporttravelinnor00hanb (find matches)
Title: Sport and travel in the northland of Canada
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hanbury, David T. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting Inuit language
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, E. Arnold
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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twoweeks later. They are queer little brown animals, withmuch the same habits as the marmot. When caught atsome distance from their burrows, they are easily taken bythe hand and do not appear to be at all alarmed. Theyform the chief food of the wolverene or glutton during thesummer months. The following day. May 30, it was decided to halt inorder to hunt deer, and the Huskies started at an earlyhour with dogs and sleigh on which to bring back thespoils. Early in the afternoon they returned with fourlarge bulls, the horns of which were one foot high. Iremained at the camp busy with photographic and geo-logical matters. Fuel, in the shape of moss and heaths, which had beenso very scarce since leaving Pelly Lake on Backs River,was now more abundant. Several species of heaths wereprocurable, even a few stunted willows could be gathered,but the dwarf birch was still absent, although our guideshad promised a plentiful supply at this place. In the evening a council of war was held to decide
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=5 i^ u: ^ ,« OGDEN BAY TO MELVILLE SOUND 155 future plans. I was particularly anxious to gain informa-tion about the climate, and about the state of the ice inthese regions during the summer months. The statementsof the guides, Hun and Pun, appeared to be of a verycontradictory nature. It was evident that we would soonbe compelled to delay somewhere to allow time for theslush and water to clear off the ice. It would be necessaryalso to kill seals and give the women time to make sealskinboots for all hands, or rather feet. To travel with sleighsthrough deep slush is not possible ; the runners sink sothat the load breasts the slush, and the sleigh becomeshopelessly stuck. After the slush comes the water stage,which also is impracticable. It was proposed to delay somewhere in the vicinity ofCape Croker, on the east side of Bathurst Inlet. We hoped,however, to be able to continue travelling on the ice acrossBathurst Inlet to Cape Barrow, and possibly also to themouth of the Coppermine R

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