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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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nother presented somedeer-meat. Of course they were out of tobacco, ammunition, andeverything else. Primers (Winchester) for reloading theircartridges were always in demand. To run short of ammunition is a very serious matterfor the Hudson Bay Huskies, for, when they became accus-tomed to the use of the firearms supplied by the traders,they entirely discarded bows and arrows. In winter, how-ever, they trapped caribou, and at this place I had anopportunity of inspecting their pitfalls, or kud-gi-tak,as they call them. In a deep snow-drift they dig an oblong pit aboutsix feet deep, and then with blocks of snow build upwalls about four feet high, so that for the deer thereis a fall of about ten feet. An easy slope leads upto the very thin roof of snow, and the structure has anatural appearance. The deer are very fond of lick-ing the snow on which dogs have deposited their urine,probably on account of the salt it contains, and of thisqueer taste the Huskies take advantage in laying down a
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