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(probably from an accident whilst growing), 

 but spread out in the same way as the horn on 

 the left-hand side, these antlers would have had 

 a spread of seventy-four inches. Moreover, 

 this measurement would have been obtained, 

 not between two long straggly points, growing 

 out far beyond the width of the palms, but 

 right across the middle of the palms themselves. 

 The moose that carried this fine head was a 

 very old animal, and I certainly think that 

 had I met and shot him a year or two earlier 

 than I did, I would have got a head measuring 

 over seventy inches in spread. 



In the mountain valleys of the East Yukon 

 territory the feed for moose is very abundant, 

 and these animals become excessively fat in the 

 summer, and I see no reason to doubt that now 

 and again antlers are produced in this district 

 which would rival the largest and heaviest 

 moose horns which have yet been obtained 

 in the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. 



With the killing of the big bull moose on the 

 evening of September 15th my second trip to 

 the hunting grounds of the upper Macmillan 



