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and tortured animals attract ravens
and wolves which help themselves to
the flesh. And little would be paid for
the fur if it had been handled so in the
trapping. When we used traps, we
were never so far away that we could
not hear when an animal got caught.
The trapping of fur bearing animals is
brutal but is it not equally brutal to
hook a salmon and tug and play it for
hours for sport alone?”
“But aren’t the inspectors at fault,
are not many animals supposed to be
protected?”
“They have protected beavers and
their numbers have multiplied. Some
animals have diminished in number
but that is not on account of hunting,
but because the forests have shrunk. It
is not hunting that is the danger, but
rather that we are laying waste to the
habitat of the wildlife. Here in Iceland
you are planting trees but in Canada
they chop them down and plant little
in their stead.”
“What animals did you prefer to
hunt?”
“Mainly fur bearers - wildcat, lynx,
mink, fox, otter, beaver, and hundreds
of muskrats. Muskrats were eaten.
You shudder but it has a good flavour.
The hindlegs of the lynx are also
excellent especially cooked with
beans. On the other hand we never
ate mink nor weasels.”
“But didn’t you hunt larger game
with rifles?”
“Caribou, elk and bears, that is to
say, brown bears, not grizzlies.”
“Isn’t it extremely dangerous to
chase bears?”
“Yes, it is best to be cautious and
not let go of your gun until the fatal
shot, which should preferably be the

first. To tell the truth I have not shot
many bears. I remember when a
young bear entered our tent and got
into the supplies. The next night I lay
in wait for him and shot him. He
cleared out, and I after him. It was not
more that a hundred and fifty feet to
where he lay wounded. He had
snatched some moss and stuffed it
into the wound to stop the bleeding,
just as a man would have done. Then
I gave him the fatal shot. I felt as if I
had killed a man.”
“The danger was not in the big
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beasts, rather flies and bugs that could
make one sick, far from medical help.
One had better be pretty strong in
those areas.”
“Was there no danger of wolves
who travelled in packs?”
“Wolves rarely eat you. One time
though they came near to starving me
to death. I had killed an elk and put
the meat on a platform to keep it from
animals. But I hadn’t reckoned with
the fact that the snow drifted at this
place, and the wolves used it to their
advantage. Learning from that, they
tracked us to our next cache and
there plunged onto the platform. They
did this three times. When we got
back, there was nothing left of the
supplies we had being relying on for
ourselves and the dogs. Then I could
have shot the beasts - if only I could
find them. I had to return to the hunt-
ing supply shed for provisions. That
Cont'd.
held us up considerably with the
hunting.
Otherwise I have little fault to find
with the wolf, he is intelligent. The
best and cleverest animal I ever
owned was a dog that was three quar-
ters wolf. He had yellow eyes. The
mother was half wolf. She was our
lead dog. She wandered away late in
the winter. Still later, when I was
looking for her in the same area, I
spotted three wolves. I intended to
shoot at least one. Two of them
noticed me and took off into the
woods but one tumed around. Just as
I was about to shoot, I recognized the
animal, there stood the bitch. In April
she bore one whelp.”
“You said it had been like killing a
man when you shot the bear.”
“Yes, the wolf is as quick-witted as
a man. The fox is cunning but not as
clever. Man is not superior to those
beasts except for his bmtality.”
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