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Moose -Hunting. 



Pleasant Point, near Eastport, Maine. The Passamaquoddies re- 

 ceive subsidy from the United States and Canadian governments, 

 and they and the Penobscot Indians have each a representative of 

 their own race in the Maine legislature. 



My tried friend and companion of many a hunt, Sebatis, is a 

 thoroughbred Indian of Mohawk descent, and an accomplished 

 hunter. His wonderful knowledge of the woods, and of the habits 

 of animals and birds, gained in a life-long experience, is seldom 



MOOSE-BIRDS. 



equaled, and he delights to impart his knowledge, and can readily 

 give the Indian names for, and relate the habits of, any animal or 

 bird inquired about. He is also an excellent story-teller, and as he 

 is a model of sobriety, one never apprehends that his interesting 

 yarns and hair-breadth 'scapes are merely the voluble flow of "after 

 dinner talk." 



He has frequently drawn my attention to the curious fact that we 

 invariably met large numbers of moose-birds when we happened to 

 be in a moose country. The moose is infested by a tick, which his 



