MOOSE-HUNTING IN CANADA lor 



in the most luxuriously furnished and carefully- 

 appointed dwelling. 



Such a home I have often helped to make. It 

 does not belong to any recognised order of architec- 

 ture, although it may fairly claim an ancient origin. 

 To erect it requires no great exercise of skill, and 

 calls for no training in art schools. I will briefly 

 describe it. 



A birch-bark camp is made in many ways. The 

 best plan is to build it in the form of a square, 

 varying in size according to the number of inhabitants 

 that you propose to accommodate. Having selected 

 a suitable level spot and cleared away the shrubs and 

 rubbish, you proceed to make four low walls com- 

 posed of two or three small suitable-sized pine logs 

 laid one on the other, and on these little low walls 

 so constructed you raise the framework of the 

 camp. This consists of light thin poles, the lower 

 ends being stuck into the upper surface of the pine 

 trees which form the walls, and the upper ends 

 leaning against and supporting each other. The 

 next operation is to strip large sheets of bark oif 

 the birch trees, and thatch these poles with them to 

 within a foot or two of the top, leaving a sufficient 

 aperture for the smoke to escape. Other poles are 

 then laid upon the sheets of birch bark to keep 



