Part 2

EAST GREENLAND MUSK-OX CALF 57

HEAD OF TWO-YEAR-OLD MUSK-OX BULL 57

MUSK-OXEN ON CAPE MORRIS JESUP, BROUGHT TO BAY BY DOGS 65

THE AUTHOR’S BARREN GROUND HUNTING KNIFE AND AX 67

THE BARREN GROUND MUSK-OX--A FULL-GROWN BULL 71

FOREFOOT OF BARREN GROUND MUSK-OX 76

FULL-GROWN EAST GREENLAND MUSK-OX--ADULT MALE 77

FOREFOOT OF EAST GREENLAND MUSK-OX 79

SKULL OF THE EAST GREENLAND MUSK-OX--FRONT VIEW 82

SKULL OF THE BARREN GROUND MUSK-OX--FRONT VIEW 82

SKULL OF THE EAST GREENLAND MUSK-OX--SIDE VIEW 83

SKULL OF THE BARREN GROUND MUSK-OX--SIDE VIEW 83

MALE YEARLING OF THE EAST GREENLAND MUSK-OX 87

ADULT FEMALE OF THE EAST GREENLAND MUSK-OX 95

MUSK-OX CALF 101

THE LAST OF THE HERD 109

PROTECTED 139

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP 169

ALERT 177

UNDER A HOT SKY 187

SURPRISED 201

THE SADDLEBACK SHEEP 213

ABOVE TIMBER LINE 229

THE WHITE GOAT IS AN AGILE CLIMBER 253

THE MUSK-OX AND ITS HUNTING

BY CASPAR WHITNEY

MY FIRST KILL

We had passed through the “Land of Little Sticks,” as the Indians so appropriately call that desolate waste which connects the edge of timber land with the Barren Grounds, and had been for several days making our way north on the lookout for any living thing that would provide us with a mouthful of food.