1 82 MOOSE CALLING. 



a single night a life-long malady may be contracted." * 



In the great forests of British North America and the 

 United States however, these serious drawbacks have 

 no existence. It is true that at the time of the early 

 settlements, fever and ague were very common and 

 fatal among the European settlers; this however was 

 brought on by the neighbourhood of swamps and 

 flooded lands, and the turning over of the virgin soil, 

 an operation which experience shows is in all new 

 countries attended with risk to health." 



But under modern conditions, and since the general 

 practice of wearing woollen garments has been intro- 

 duced, ague is much more seldom met with, and need not 

 be dreaded during a hunting trip in the forests of the 

 northern States and Canada, during the autumn and 

 winter months, at all events. 



One of the curiosities of sport in Canada is that 

 known as " moose calling, " which is practised during 

 the still moonlit nights of autumn. Full descriptions 

 of it will be found in most American sporting works. 

 The caller, who is almost always an Indian, uses a 

 conical tube of birchbark as a trumpet, with which 

 he imitates the cry of the cow moose with wonderful 

 success, and many fine bulls are shot by this stratagem, 

 even by indifferent sportsmen, for the shooter has only 

 to sit still, and follow the Indian's directions, till he 

 gets his shot. 



Another speciality of the Canadian woods is moose 

 hunting in deep snow, when the animals are " yarded" 

 in spaces where they have trodden down the snow 

 into a hard floor, and out of which they rarely move 



* India in 1880, by Sir R. Temple, Lieut .-Governor of Bombay, 

 p. 348. 



