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Title: The Canadian field-naturalist
Identifier: canadianfieldnat451931otta (find matches)
Year: 1931 (1930s)
Authors: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
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Publisher: Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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May, 1931) The Canadian Field-Naturalist 115
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Figure 2,—"Tweed" Esker as seen looking north from Chapman an esker in old Ontario. It not only lies close but will be on, or near, the proposed Ottawa- to the country road from Tweed to Belleville Sarnia highway. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF EXTREME NORTH-EASTERN LABRADOR By BERNHARD HANTZSCH "BeitrSge zur Kenntnis des nordostlichsten Labradors, von Bemhard Hantzsch, Mitteilungen des Vereins fUr Erd- kunde zu Dresden, Dresden, Volume 8, 1909, pp. 158-229. Volume 9, 1909, pp. 245-320. (Translated from the original German text in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., by M. B. A. Anderson, M.A., Ottawa, 1928.) Original pagination given in the text. (Continued from page 90) O THE first excursion of any length ended, and we had felt very well on this trij). Daily or at least every other day we travelled a little farther down the coast. Then we succeeded in finding a sheltered inlet, where we found also a grassy camping place, above all drinking water and drift wood. Usually Paksau's skilled gaze had soon discovered a quiet and snug nook. We now unloaded the boat, drew it upon the land whenever possible or, with several ropes, (P. 196) made it fast to pro- jecting rocks. Then the little tent was erected, and a fireplace of stones, closed on three sides, was built. Paksau prepared chips, cutting with his knife along the stick as thin shavings as possible, being careful not to break the shaving until he had a curl of wood. These finely split curls of wood were laid in the fireplace, where they usually soon started to burn even in wet weather. When conditions were worst, I had to pour a little of my preparation alcohol on crumpled paper and push this under the shavings. Soon the damp wood was crackling and smoking, in a short time the water in the tea-kettle was bubbling, and we were cooking tea, soup, fish or birds. Now came the pleasant meal in the tent or in calm weather outside the tent, and then we turned to new activities. We travelled across mountain and valley together, in order to shoot birds, and pre- pare them afterwards in the tent, or we did other work. There was always something to do. When we brought home only little birds, which Paksau could not handle well, because he had lost several fingers through an accident, he made himself useful in other ways. Full of good spirits he played the part of a true goblin, when I sent him out with an insect-killing phial to collect beetles, spiders and the like. That he, who as one of the bravest hunters in his district had killed polar bears, walrus, etc., should now be hunting such

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