My First Moose 



This kill gave me the idea that I must not spend 

 too much of my time after sheep if I was to 

 be successful with moose, so I gave my knee 

 some pretty severe work during the next four or 

 five days, with the result that I nearly crocked 

 up entirely, but managed to kill fifteen sheep in 

 all, three whole skins of ewes and also of three 

 rams being kept as specimens, which on my 

 return I disposed of as follows : one pair I gave 

 to the Victoria Natural History Museum, B.C., 

 one pair to the Natural History Museum, South 

 Kensington, which, by the way, were disgrace- 

 fully cleaned, in fact, hardly cleaned at all, and 

 one pair my taxidermist sold for me in Paris 

 for a museum there. The rest of my heads I 

 gave away, with the exception of three, which I 

 kept for my own collection. 



We had bad luck with both grizzly and black 

 bears ; the country fairly swarmed with them, 

 but my time was so short that I could not devote 

 a whole week or ten days to their pursuit, as I 

 did in the case of the sheep and moose. Had I 

 been able to do so, I am sure I could have 

 obtained all the bear I wanted, and I did want 

 a very big one badly. Here, again, bad luck 

 came in, for I did not get another shot at bears, 

 except one at a black beast, which I might as 

 well have missed, during the time I was in the 

 mountains. " Prasnic " was the principal cause of 

 my failure in this direction, for I should have 



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