MOOSE-HUNTING IN CANADA 139 



You set out early in the morning, in any direction 

 you may think advisable, according to the way the 

 wind blows, examining carefully all the tracks that 

 you come across. When you hit upon a track, 

 you follow it a little way, examining it and the 

 ground and trees, to see if the animal is travelling 

 or not. If you find that the moose has " yarded," 

 that is to say, fed, and you can come across evi- 

 dences of his presence not more than a couple of 

 days or so old, you make up your mind to hunt 

 that particular moose. 



The utmost caution and skill are necessary. 

 The moose invariably travels down wind some 

 little distance before beginning to feed, and then 

 works his way up, browsing about at will in various 

 directions. He also makes a circle down wind 

 before lying down, so that, if you hit on a fresh 

 track and then follow it, you are perfectly certain 

 to start the animal without seeing him. You may 

 follow a moose track a whole day, as I have done 

 before now, and finally come across the place where 

 you started him, and then discover that you had 

 passed within fifty yards of that spot early in the 

 morning, the animal having made a large circuit 

 and lain down close to his tracks. The principle, 

 therefore, that the hunter has to go upon is, to 



