A Canadian Moose Hunt 



In October, 1893, I made an extended trip 

 with my brother into the country around the 

 head waters of the Ottawa. Our original plan, to 

 push northward toward the " Height of Land " 

 after caribou, was frustrated by high winds, 

 which made travel on the large lakes slow and 

 dangerous. The crossing of a ten-mile lake, 

 which could be accomplished in a morning if 

 calm, would consume several days with a high 

 wind blowing, necessitating a tedious coasting 

 on the windward shore. After much delay 

 from this cause and from heavy rains, which 

 made hunting difficult in the extreme, we at 

 length abandoned the hope of caribou on this 

 trip, and turned southward from Birch Lake 

 into Lake Kwingwishe — the Indian name for 

 meat bird. This was about the northern limit 

 of moose, although a few are found beyond it. 



Our repeated failures to see this great deer 

 would not form interesting reading, although, 

 if recorded, they would, no doubt, bring to the 



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