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A JOURNEY TO THE 
1772. legs with fuch violence as to endanger any birch. 
January. 
rind canoe that comes within their reach; for 
which reafon all the Indians who kill deer upon 
the water are provided with a long ftick that will 
reach far beyond the head of the canoe. 
The moofe are alfo the eafieft to tame and do. 
mefticate of any of the deer kind. I have repeat. 
edly feen them at Churchill as tame as fheep*, 
and even more fo; for they would follow their 
keeper any diftance from home, and at his call 
return with him, without the leaft trouble, or 
ever offering to deviate from the patht. 
The flefh of the moofe is very good, though the 
grain is but coarfe, and it is much tougher than 
any other kind of venifon. The nofeis moft ex- 
cellent, as is alfo the tongue, though by no means 
fo fat and delicate as that of the common deer. 
It is perhaps worth remarking, that the livers of — 
the 
* The moofe formerly fent to his Majefty was from that place. A young 
male wasalfo put on board the fhip, but it died on the paflage, otherwife it 
is probable they might have propagated in this country. 
t Since the above was written, the fame Indian that brought all the 
above-mentioned young moofe to the Faétory had, in the year 1777, two 
others, fo tame, that when onhis paflage to Prince of Wales’s Fortin a | 
canoe, the moofe always followed him along the bank of the river; and at” 
night, or ou any other occafion when the Indains landed, the young moofe 
generally came and fondled on them, in the fame manner as the moft do-_ 
meftic animal would have done, and never offered to firay from the tents. 
Unfortunately, in crofling a deep bay in one of the lakes, (on a fine day,) 
all the Indians that were not interefted in the fafe-landing of thofe engag- 
ing creatures, paddled from point to point ; and the man that owned them, 
not caring to go fo far about by himfelf, accompanied the others, in hopes — 
they would follow him round as ufual; but at night the young moofe did ' 
not arrive; and as the howling of fome wolves was heardin that quarter, 
it was fuppofed they had been devoured by them, as they were never af- 
terward feen, 
