The Seaforth News, 1956-04-05, Page 7Thirty
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"Le Carcajou!" the Cree In-
dlian muttered with mingled awe
and fear as he bent over the
last of his traps. Every one of.
them had been raided of its
bait, evidence that he had been
challenged by . a relentless forest
enemy. And he knew there was
not room in this wild northland
for both of them.
The Indian shook his fist. "Le„
Carcajou!" he muttered again,
end set out through the snow
en the trail of his enemy,
Up ahead somewhere his dog
barked, then was silent. The
Indian hurried .forward appre-
' i ensively. In a clearing he came
upon his dog, dead, his throat
savagely slashed.
Snow was beginning to fall.
So the trapper pitched his tent
and crawled inside. In the mor-
ning he found that his snow-
shoes, which he had hung up.
on a branch, had been cut to
pieces. Again le Carcajou had
struck.
Stoically the Indian went in
t:'earch of willows to use for
temporary snowshoes. When he
returned he found his tent and
blanket completely ruined, his
matches gone.
Shivering for lack of a fire, he
forced his numbed fingers to
contrive new snowshoes; then
wearily began the long jour-
ney back to his cabin, where
Mod and warmth awaited him.
But when he reached it at last
end pushed open the door, he
saw that his vindictive enemy
bad been here too.
The pelts that represented his
winters trapping were ripped
end slashed to useless strips.
Ens supplies were in a scrambled
heap on the floor, sugar sacks
cut open, flour strewn over
everything, bacon tossed into
t.be ashes of the fireplace. The
m1Wblankets in his bunk were torn
to ribbons.
The trapper set out for the
nearest Hudsons Bay Post vow-
ing that he was through with
trapping. Once again a human
being had been defeated by a
fantastic creature of the wild -
le Carcajou, the wolverine.
Though the wolverine possess-
es such craft, cunning and im-
placable hatred of man that he
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is viewed with awe by experi-
enced woodsmen, he isan un-
gainly little beast hardly three
feet long and weighing, as a
rule, less than 30 pounds, writes
Reed Millard in "Coronet."
Known as le Carcajou to the
Indians and French Canadians
of the northland, in the western
U.S. he is sometimes called
"skunk bear" because of his dis-
agreeable scent and because he
looks somewhat like a bizarre
combination of those two ani-
mals. Technically, he is a mem-
ber of the weasel family.
Unprepossessing as he may be
in appearance, the accomplish-
ments of this fiend of the forest
long ago Convinced the. Indians
that le Carcajou has supernatur-
al powers. His feats' of strength
are legendary.
In order to get at some pack-
ages of food cached atop a huge
woodpile, but which had fallen
down between the logs, a single
28 -pound wolverine upset the
entire woodpile. In the process
he actually moved logs 30 feet
long which had required, two
,men to put in place.
The wolverine may well rate
as nature's most fearsome fight-
er. In. battle with an enemy, he
is a twisting, slashing blur of
sheer fury that bewilders and
terrifies an adversary. Ile has
been known to attack a 1,200 -
pound moose - a creature more
than 40 times' his weight - and
is capable of defending himself
against an entire pack of wolves.
Wolverines have killed bears
and mountain lions.
The wolverine's, teeth are am-
ong nature's most marvelous
cutting instruments. Angled in
such a way that they actually
cut like shears, they can slash
through a two -inch -thick rope
at a single bite.
As additional armament, the
wolverine has claws two inch-
es long, and curved, that give
hint fantastic digging power.
Wolverines have been known to
dig their way throughthree feet
of frozen rock -hard earth.
Often a wolverine will stalk
a bigger, more powerful predat-
or until it has brought down
game, then step in and take it
over. Hunters have seen a single
wolverine swagger up to a pack
of waives about to eat its kill -
and the wolves slink away,
Le Carcajou is a terror under
ordinary conidtions, but the fe-
male, when guarding her young,
is even more deadly. Ernest
Thompson Seton, the naturalist,
once observed, "She is a tigress
of ferocity, absolutely fearless,
and so strong and quick that
a man, even armed with a gun,
is taking risks if he comes near."
Normally, a wolverine will
not attack a human, but a cap-
tured one trying to escape will
sometimes turn upon his captor
with lethal ferocity. An Alask-
an huntsman who caught one,
intending to send it to a zoo,
put it in his cabin in a seem-
ingly secure cage of railroad
ties.
During the night, the wolver-
ine gnawed his way through' the
ties, stealthily crept toward the
trapper's bed and suddenly
leaped upon him. The trapper
might well have been killed if
his screams had not brought help
in time.
The wolverine is fanatically
devoted to making life miserable
for trappers. So relentless is he
in his feuds that the Hudson's
Bay Company, in a booklet for
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"he" played hockey all winter with a Toronto, Canada junior
team until a birth certificate check showed that "Ab" is short
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of a boy, declaring that girl's- dress is "stupid."
trappers, states flatly: "When a
wolverine appears on his line,
the trapper has but two alter-
natives: ,he must trap the wol-
verine or give up trapping." '
The Company's records are
studded with tales of wolverine
vendettas. Most commonplace
trick is that of going from trap
to trap, carrying off any ani-
mals caught there and, as often
as not, carrying off the traps
themselves. Frequently a wol-
verine will lug the traps long
distances in order to drop them
through the ice into a 'frozen
stream or among inaccessible
rocks,
As an escape artist,, the wol-
verine is supreme in the animal
world. Hunters who have suc-
ceeded in trapping them have
discovered that the hard way.
One trapper who had been
lucky enough to capture a wol-
erine placed him in a large
sheet steel oil drum, removing
the bung to provide air for the
creature.
In the morning, the man
found his captive gone. Incred-
ibly, the wolverine had succeed-
ed in inserting his nose into the
bung hole and literally ripping
away the steel.
Not that many men have suc-
ceeded in getting that far with
trapping a wolverine, for le
Carcajou is one of the hardest
of all animals to catch. One
trapper, upon finding one of his
traps missing, deduced from the
tracks that it had caught a wol-
verine by one foot and that the
animal was dragging .the trap.
The trapper set out to follow
him. Hour after hour he snow -
shoed at top speed. But after 50
miles he gave up. Handicapped
as he was, the wolverine . was
still ahead of him.
J. G. Lockhart, a skilled
Manitoba trapper, once found
his traplines being raided by a
wolverine. Heeding the admoni-
tion of the Hudsons Bay Com-
pany, for weeks he set traps,
singly and in batches of six,
using the utmost cunning in con-
cealing them. The wolverine
calmly ignored them all.
Desperate, Lockhart then de-
vised an ingenious scheme. "I
set up a gun on the bank of a
little lake," he reports. "The gun
was concealed in some low
b u s h e s, but the bait was so
placed that Carcajou must see it
on his way up the b a n k. I
blockaded the path to the gun
with a small pine tree which
completely hid. it.
"On my first visit afterwards
I found the beast had gone up
to the bait and smelled it, but
had left it untouched. He had
next pulled up the pine tree
that blocked the path, and had
gone around the gun and cut
..the line which connected the
bait with the trigger. Then he
had carried the bait out onto
the lake, where he lay down on
the ice and devoured It at his.
leisure. There I found my
string.
"It seemed that faculties fully
on a par with human reason
would be required for such an
exploit. I therefore rearranged
things, tying the string where it
had been bitten. But the result
was exactly the same for three
successive occasions, as I could
plainly see by the animal's foot-
prints.
"And what is most singular
G ANT TRY - Bob Lennon is
after more than the ball as he
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of all, each time the brute was
careful to cut the line a little
back of where it had been tied
before, as if actually reasoning
that the knots might to some
new device of mine, and there-
fore a source of danger he would
prudently avoid."
Lockhart, completely baffled,
gave up his efforts to capture his
wilderness opponent. "I came to
the cdnclusion," he said, "that
Carcajou ought to 1 iv e as he
Must be at least part human -
if not worse,"
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