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in a little trapper shack back in that wilderness. And they told us they had lived there for forty-two years. So you could imagine some of the stories the trapper had to tell. In fact, I don’t believe we got much sleep that night {audience laughter}. We were the first white people they had seen in over a year and a half. So you could imagine how excited they were to see us. We had to stay right with them. One of the stories he told I’ll never forget and that was about these caribou. Every spring he said the caribou would migrate by his cabin by the thousands. He said it would take days for those herds to get by his cabin. And they would go up what they call these moss beds. And of course, that’s what these caribou feed on is moss. They’d have their young ones up there. Then in the fall here they’d come again, he said, right by the cabin. Then they’d get their riffle out. And we would sho