Part of my plan was to leave a provision cache every hundred. miles, with enough food to carry us 200 miles, and thus cover the. possibility of considerable loss. I had left supplies at Chipewyan,. Smith, and Resolution, but these were settlements; now we were. pushing off into the absolute wilderness, where it was unlikely. we should see any human beings but ourselves. Now, indeed, we. were facing all primitive conditions. Other travellers have made. similar plans for food stores, but there are three deadly enemies. to a cache—weather, ravens, and wolverines., I was prepared for. all three. Water-proof leatheroid cases were to turn the storm,. dancing tins and lines will scare the ravens, and each cache tree. was made unclimbable to Wolverines by the addition of a necklace of. charms in the form of large fish-hooks, all nailed on with points. downward. This idea, borrowed from, Tyrrell, has always proved a. success; and not one of our caches was touched or injured.

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