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and threw his blanket over his head. Leaving this one 

 to swim about, he gave chase to another - - caught him, 

 and threw his coat over his head, and left him to swim 

 about too ; he then gave chase to the third, but if it 

 had not been for a fair wind, he would never have 

 caught him. As it was, he only came up to him when 

 within fifty yards of shore. The moose was tired, and 

 did not make much way. The Indian hit him on the 

 nose and stunned him for a moment ; he then gave him 

 a rap on the head, and finished him after a few more 

 blows. But it requires very skillful paddling to kill a 

 moose in the water, and he would not have done it so 

 easily if the poor animal had not been tired with swim- 

 ming across a broad lake. After he had dragged this 

 one into shallow water, he turned to look where the 

 others were ; he saw them swimming round and round 

 in the middle of the lake they could not see which way 

 to go. After resting a while, the Indian paddled up to 

 the one nearest him, and turned him towards shore 

 always keeping a little behind, and going from one side 

 to the other, according as the moose wandered from a 

 straight line. When he came near the land he paddled 

 up to him, and served him as he had done the first - 

 tied him to his canoe and tugged him into shallow water. 

 He then went after the third, who was still swimming 

 round and round, but very weak. He got him with 

 difficulty near the shore, and despatched him in the same 

 style as the others.* 



* The following account of the habits of the moose is by Mr. James E. 

 Powell, a hunter iu Maine, and was read before the Philadelphia Academy 

 of Natural Sciences in June 1850 : ' In regard to the moose, I speak of it 



