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MOOSEHEAD LAKE 



Catholics. The punishment of the revolt in- 

 cited by Philip II in 1568-1570 was completed 

 by Philip III, and by 1610 the Moors had all 

 been expelled from Spain. They were among 

 the most vigorous, industrious subjects, and it 

 was a great national misfortune that they were 

 driven out. Those returning to Northern Africa 

 were known as Andalusians. They settled in 

 the coast towns, and became, with the other in- 

 habitants, famous pirates, and remained so un- 

 til the nineteenth century. It was these people 

 who raided United States commerce in the 

 Mediterranean Sea and were checked only when 

 Commodore Decatur was sent against them in 

 1815 (see DECATUR, STEPHEN). 



The present Moors are not, as is sometimes 

 supposed, negroes. They are a white race, show- 

 ing in swarthy skin and fine features their very 

 mixed blood, for the original inhabitants inter- 

 married with Romans, Arabs and Spanish. They 

 are not well educated, despite ,their great dig- 

 nity of manner, and are ^fanatical Moham- 

 medans, remaining true to the faith of their 

 fathers with all the ancient zeal. 



Consult Fitzgerald's In the Track of the Moors; 

 Lane-Poole's The Moors in Spain. 



Related Subjects. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes : 

 Alhambra Granada 



Ferdinand V Isabella of Castile 



MOOSE, the largest member of the deer 

 family, stands from five to seven feet high at 

 the shoulders, and has antlers that sometimes 

 measure over six feet from tip to tip. His home 

 is in the forests of Canada, Maine and Minne- 

 sota, and to a lesser extent those of the North- 

 western United States. The European elk of 

 Scandinavia, Russia and Prussia is a smaller 

 moose, though the elk of America is a distinctly 

 different animal. 



Characteristics. The antlers of the mafe 

 moose are striking. The fore part of them re- 

 sembles the horns of a deer, but the branches 

 at the back are united in a spadelike, flat sur- 

 face, often over a foot wide, from which six to 

 twelve short points protrude like spread fingers 

 from the palm of the hand. The female has 

 no antlers. The upper part of the moose's muz- 

 zle hangs flabbily three or four inches over the 

 chin, and aids the animal in browsing for its 

 favorite foods of soft twigs and bark, moss, and 

 the stems and leaves of water lilies. Its front 

 legs are longer than those behind, giving it a 

 clumsy gait and making it necessary for the 

 animal to get on its knees when eating from the 

 ground. It often rears against young trees, 



bending them over with its weight in order to 

 reach the upper branches. 



In the summer moose live in solitude on the 

 shores of lakes and swamps, only the mothers 

 and their young of less than three years being 

 found together. They spend the winter in ever- 

 green forests, several families living together in 

 a space of a few acres known as a moose yard. 



With all its apparent clumsiness the moose 

 is swift and powerful. It can charge at full 



THE KING OF WOODLAND ANIMALS 



speed through thickets in which a man has al- 

 most to hew his way. It never gallops, but runs 

 with a high step. In spite of restrictions on 

 moose hunting in both Canada and the United 

 States, the animal is in danger of becoming ex- 

 tinct. 



"Bull Moose" Party. In 1912 when the Na- 

 tional Progressive party was organized in the 

 United States it was popularly called the "Bull 

 Moose Party," because its leader, Theodore 

 Roosevelt, said upon his return home from 

 abroad that he felt as "fine as a bull moose." 



MOOSEHEAD LAKE, the largest lake in 

 New England, in Western Maine, forming part 

 of the boundary between Somerset and Pis- 

 cataquis counties. It is thirty-five miles long 

 and in width varies from one to ten miles. 

 Though it is deep enough for navigation there 

 is only one steamship line, and that is mostly 

 for the accommodation of the many hunters 

 and tourists who come each year for the fine 

 fishing and hunting. Bear, deer and elk are 



