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twenty miles an hour ; is docile, and can be easily 

 tamed ; and is only dangerous, like all olher 

 deer, in the rutting season. Sir John Wentw orth, 

 Governor of Nova Scotia, had one in his park, 

 and as his company were assembling at dinner 

 one day, they amused themselves with looking at 

 it, running about in a furious manner, and it 

 finally pushed over a small building from which 

 the house-keeper crept in a state of great confu- 

 3ion. 



He is more easy to tame than any of the deer 

 family. He has been frequently kept at Churchill, 

 as tame as sheep, and even more so, for he would 

 frequently follow his keeper any distance from 

 home, and at his call return with him, without the 

 least trouble, or ever oirering to deviate from the 

 path ; and Hearne relates that the same Indian 

 who had brought the above mentioned young 

 moose to Churchill, had, in 1777, two others so 

 tame, that when on his passage to Prince of 

 Wales's Fort, in a canoe, the moose always fol- 

 lowed him along on the bank of the river, and at 

 night, or on any otlier occasion when the Indians 

 landed, tlic young moose generally came and 

 fondled on them, in the same manner as the most 

 domestic animal would have done, and never of- 

 fered to stray from the tents. Unfortunately, in 

 crossing a deep bay in one of the lakes ou a fine 



