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Show W Mountains and I Shores Alive With I Migrating Caribou1 Hj DAWSON, Y. T., OcL 9. (By Mail.) B v "Mountains and shores seemed to he KK alive and moving," declared Dr. H C. Bi Miller, a United States army doctor hS "who v.'as aboard the United Stales Bjjf govemment steamboat General Jeff C. Hljf Davis when sho encountered a vast Hff herd of migrating caribou, or Arctic H' deer, on the Yukon river several days i ago. "At one time vre could see be- i tvrecn 2000 and 5000 caribou from the j B'p Caribou congregated on islands in H the river, roved the bars, swam the Hr stream and swarmed on both hanks. U Dr, Miller added. His estimate of the B' number did not include the several 1 thousand which had gone over the hills or wferc on their way to the river from , the north. One man, Dr. Miller assert - ; ed, said he walked twenty -one miles ' among tho moving herds before he , could gel through them, j For three hours the Davis ploughed ' among the animals swimming the river. "The crew lassooed some of the caribou and dragged them on deck for fresh meat. |