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by a small stream about five hundred feet 

 below us. 



I was walking just behind Louis and saw the 

 moose almost at the same time that he did. 

 Mr. Sheldon and Coglilan were just then some 

 little way behind, so I got the pack off my back 

 as quickly as possible and at once commenced 

 to descend the steep hillside towards the spot 

 where the moose was standing. 



The spruce trees were growing rather thickly 

 in places, and I lost sight of the whole of the 

 willow swamp below me before I had descended 

 very far, and on reaching a more open spot, 

 could not see the moose anywhere. The wind 

 was favourable, I had made no noise in the 

 soft snow, and I could not believe that I had 

 been seen. I imagined that the moose had 

 moved from where w^e had first seen it, and 

 got amongst some trees. However I had marked 

 a tall dead spruce near where we had first seen 

 it, and I worked slowly down towards that. 



On getting near the edge of the willow 

 swamp I scanned it very carefully but with- 

 out seeing any sign of the huge animal which 



