Hunting in Many Lands 



previously imagined ourselves. In all my ex- 

 perience I have never met with any animal 

 which is so difficult to get a shot at, even when 

 quite numerous, as the moose in this region. 

 It must always be borne in mind that to kill 

 a moose — especially in a country where they 

 have been hunted for generations by the In- 

 dians — by the thoroughly sportsmanlike meth- 

 od of following the trail of one until you 

 finally get a shot at it and kill it, is a totally 

 different thing from killing the same moose 

 either by calling him at night in the autumn 

 or by paddling on him in a canoe in the sum- 

 mer. In fact, of all the difficult things I have 

 ever undertaken in the way of sport, I regard 

 this as the most difficult ; and before I got my 

 first shot I began to think that there was a 

 great deal of truth in the Indian's sneering 

 remark, "White man no kill moose." Finally 

 one day my luck turned, but that it did so was 

 due more to the realization of my own infe- 

 riority, and lack of the proper kind of knowl- 

 edge, than to anything else. 



It happened in this way : having thoroughly 

 convinced myself that the moose either smelt 

 me or in some other way found out that I was 

 in their neighborhood before I could be made 



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