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The large game of the Kenai Peninsula comprises 

 moose, caribou, brown bear, black bear, sheep and goat. 

 The goat has, however, been exterminated from all 

 except the most northerly portion, while the caribou is 

 nearly extinct and strictly protected by law. 



The great pride of the Kenai Peninsula as a game 

 country rests upon the moose. This magnificent animal, 

 the largest member of the deer family living or extinct, 

 attains in this country its greatest size, and here bears 

 the largest antlers. The Kenai moose has been described 

 as a separate variety and is called the giant moose. The 

 two largest specimens of this splendid deer ever killed 

 have been taken in the Kenai Peninsula, the antlers 

 measuring in width 78| and 77| inches respectively. 

 One large bull, which we measured, stood six feet seven 

 inches high at the shoulders and other travelers record 

 taller figures. 



The Kenai brown bear has been described as a sepa- 

 rate variety, differing in some particulars from those of 

 Kodiak Island and other parts of the Alaska Peninsula, 

 as well as from the representatives of the family found on 

 Montague Island in Prince William Sound and the islands 

 of the Alexander Archipelago near Sitka. Certainly 

 it is one of the largest of all bears, a gigantic cousin of 

 the grizzly, which it probably exceeds in ferocity. Owing, 

 however, to the systematic hunting of this great creature 

 each spring by the guides, it is becoming scarcer here 

 than in other localities. 



The first day's march was the longest and hardest of 

 our trip in the Kenai Peninsula and was not made any 

 easier by the previous inactivity for many days. We 

 bundled together food enough to start a camp in the 

 sheep country, with a couple of tents, cooking pots and 



