A Canadian Moose Hunt 



at home once more. Then passing by the 

 scenes of a former hunt, we reached Fort 

 Eddy, an old Hudson Bay post, and then 

 the Ottawa River. We ran the Cave rapids, 

 and at sundown on a beautiful day the town 

 of Mattawa swung in sight, and the hunt 

 was over. 



The country we had traversed contained 

 little except bears and moose. We saw a few 

 caribou tracks, and brought home with us a 

 curious caribou antler, which we found in the 

 woods. 



The fur animals have, within the last five 

 years, been exterminated, and the very few 

 beaver that survive have abandoned their old 

 habits, and live in holes in the banks of the 

 larger streams. We found traces of one of 

 these bank beaver, but he was probably travel- 

 ing and we could not catch him. A few mink 

 were shot, but the country is completely strip- 

 ped of everything else of value. If the present 

 law, prohibiting the trapping of otter and 

 beaver, can be enforced, perhaps the land 

 may be restocked, but it will take years. It 

 is fit for nothing except fur and timber, and, 

 with efficient game wardens, could be made to 

 produce a large return from these sources. 



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