MOOSE-HUNTING IN CANADA 113 



evening was perfectly still ; the surface of the 

 lake, unbroken by the smallest ripple, shone like 

 a mirror and reflected the coast-line and trees so 

 accurately that it was impossible to tell where 

 water ended and land began. 



The love of money and the love of sport are the 

 passions that lead men into such scenes as these. 

 The lumberman, the salmon fisher, and the hunter 

 in pursuit of large game, monopolise the beauties 

 of nature in these Canadian wdlds. The moose 

 {Cervus A Ices) and caribou (Cervus rangifer) are 

 the principal large game to be found in Canada. 

 The moose is by far the biggest of all existing deer. 

 He attains to a height of quite 18 hands, and 

 weighs about 1200 pounds or more. The moose 

 of America is almost, if not quite, identical with 

 the elk of Europe, but it attains a greater size. 

 The horns especially are much finer than those to 

 be found on the elk in Russia, Prussia, or the 

 Scandinavian countries. 



The moose has many advantages over other 

 deer, but it suffers also from some terrible dis- 

 advantages, which make it an easy prey to its 

 great and principal destroyer, man. Whereas 

 among most, if not all, the members of the deer 

 tribe, the female has but one fawn at a birth, the 



