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be most easily hunted is in the month of March. The 

 snow-shoeing then is good, and the days long. It is almost 

 a pity, however, to kill them so late in the season ; besides, 

 sportsmen naturally prefer to hunt them when there is a 

 chance of getting good heads, viz. in the first snow. 



la winter the colour of the cariboo is a pale greyish 

 brown, approaching to a whitish grey in the neck and 

 belly; in summer they are much darker. Both bucks 

 and does have horns ; those of the bucks are handsome, 

 large and branchy, and very irregular in their shape. 

 The old bucks shed their antlers in November ; the young 

 ones and the does retain theirs all winter. The flesh is 

 good, but rather dry ; how can it be otherwise in winter, 

 considering that they live on a substance much like tow, 

 and with about as much taste ? The flesh of a doe killed 

 in October and November is delicious. Plenty of game 

 gives the Indians hard work, for they have to haul the 

 carcases on their trabogens to the nearest road, sometimes 

 to a lumber camp, where those good fellows, the lumberers, 

 are always ready to assist both in eating the meat and 

 in hauling the haunches, heads, &c., to the nearest 

 settlement. 



The legitimate season for moose hunting ends on the 

 1st of February. " Still-hunting " moose in the soft snow 

 of early winter is good sport, and requires great skill and 

 caution in the hunter; but, as the animals shed their 

 magnificent antlers in the fall, the sport in winter is 

 robbed of half its charms. As I said elsewhere, they are 

 unable to travel fast through the deep snow; and in 

 winter, either singly or in parties of two or three, they 

 choose a hill or tract far back in the forest, where their 



