Musk ox 



CHAPTER XIX 



MUSK OX 

 BY WARBURTON PIKE 



IN a work dealing with the sport of the present day there is 

 no necessity to inquire into the past history of the Musk Ox 

 (Ovibos moschatus), or to speak of its extensive distribution 

 during the early ages of the world. It is enough to pay a visit 

 to the South Kensington Museum and wonder at the specimens 

 of musk-ox heads dug out of the brick earth at Maidenhead 

 and Ilford, differing but slightly from the bleached heads that 

 may be picked up any day in the Barren Ground, and leave 

 to scientists the task of describing the methods by which pre- 

 historic man hunted the musk ox in what is now the pleasant 

 valley of the Thames. I shall only attempt to describe the 



