File:Sport and travel in the northland of Canada (1904) (14781484834).jpg

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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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FROM BAKER LAKE TO BACKS RIVER 115 bait, so that large numbers of deer are captured. Deer,however, must be numerous for a fair chance of success,and the pitfalls must be closely watched; for, as soon asa beast falls into a pit, he commences to fight and worry,and if he dies from exhaustion, as he soon does, the fleshis almost uneatable. ^ Iglor-yu-ullig has a wide reputation among the Huskiesas a fishing place. There must be springs in the riverhere, for even during the most severe winters the ice neverattains a thickness of more than two or three inches. Ihad given Pitzeolah nets, but he had not been successful,not knowing how to set them underneath the ice. White-fish and toolabies cannot be taken with a hook, but inwinter they are speared in this manner : Through a longishhole cut in the ice the skin of a fish is passed down intothe water, head up stream. This skin, being distendedwith water so as to have a natural appearance, acts asa decoy, and, when live fish approach, down come

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