Hunting in Many Lands 



that it was not worth while to prepare it ; but 

 th-e neck and scalp were perfect, except a bad 

 scar on the forehead, received in fighting. 



He was a grand sight as he lay dead in 

 that silent autumn forest — for I never can get 

 over the impression that somehow or other 

 the moose is a survival of a long past order 

 of nature, a fit comrade for the mammoth and 

 the cave bear. He was short and thickset, 

 with immense chest power — probably a swamp 

 moose. The neck was short and stout, and he 

 had a Jewish cast of nose. No bell — merely 

 the common dewlap. He measured at the 

 shoulder 6 feet 6 inches; 9 feet Sj4 inches 

 from nose to tip of tail ; girth at shoulders, 

 6 feet 2}4 inches. We skinned and decapi- 

 tated the moose, one after the other. The 

 meat of both was completely spoiled, and it 

 seemed wicked to leave those two huge car- 

 casses to the bears and wolves ; but there was 

 no help for it, so we started for Mattawa. I 

 doubt if we could have carried out any of the 

 meat if we had tried, for we had to throw 

 away everything not absolutely necessary on 

 the long portages that followed. At last we 

 reached Rosiceau's, on Snake Lake, and, with 

 the welcome the old man gave us, felt quite 



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