Word: caribou
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...gold camp of Fairbanks in the interior also enjoys a boomlet. Most of its streets are lanes of thick dust; a third of its homes are sagging log cabins; caribou wander disconsolately in its outskirts. But 7,500 people have jammed in where 3,500 lived before, and more are coming every...
Prospectors told of a lush almost tropical country where the river never froze even when the temperature sank to 50 below in the surrounding mountains. Great herds of fat deer and caribou, they said, cropped the green pastures. Last week the tales had grown so fantastic that the Vancouver Sun's columnist, Jack Scott, burlesqued the Nahanni as a "bodyless valley where ripe bananas hang from the boughs of pine trees [and] dusky native girls swim about in the deep, warm pools...
Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, on a flying tour of Alaska, was banqueted with a difference when he dropped in on little Barrow, the continent's farthest-north town. Eskimos dined him in the schoolhouse. Spécialites de maison: barbecued caribou, seal cheek, roast walrus heart, fried seal liver, candied whale meat...
...eyes and swallow them so the animal cannot watch itself being skinned. The first time Campbell went on a walrus hunt, it all but turned his stomach to see a native gulping down handfuls of live maggots from the carcass. Once he tried a live worm from a slaughtered caribou, and found it most disagreeable...
...centuries the wind, sweeping down over vast, unknown Ungava* in northern Quebec, had covered nature's riches with a deep mantle of snow. Hungry caribou foraged for lichen. A few thousand Eskimos and Indians trapped beaver, hunted seals. The white man had crossed Ungava on foot only three times, had flown in briefly to prospect for minerals-and had not even scratched Ungava's bountiful surface...