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- 
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