12 HINTS ON FOREST AND PEAIRIE LIFE. 



destruction, bj imitating the cry of the female, as 

 in more northern regions they lure the bull-moose by 

 lowing like the cow. In the latter sport the white 

 hunter will never equal his red compeer, at least so 

 says Lieutenant Hardy: — 



' 'So white man has ever been able to imitate the 

 call of the moose with such truthful resemblance to 

 Nature as an Indian. A white man can call in the 

 right key, and loud enough to be heard by a moose 

 six miles off. He may even get an answer from a 

 distant bull; but it is when the moose approaches 

 that he fails, and the Indian tact comes into play. 

 The cautious brute will stop sometimes a dozen times 

 in the half-mile before comincf in rang^e of the 

 hunter's rifle ; and then it is that those extraordinary 

 sounds, suppressed bellowings and gruntings, which 

 are uttered by the Indian as if proceeding from the 

 chest of a huge animal, allay suspicions, and cause 

 him to come crashing wildly through the bushes to 

 his destruction.' 



The inexperienced hunter having succeeded in 

 making his way into the forest, would, as I before 

 hinted, feel himself sorely at a loss in finding his way 

 out, unless he is accompanied by a hunter of judgment 

 in woodcraft. Let him penetrate into a jungle where 

 every tree seems twin-brother to its neighbour, and 

 the space between them is filled up with vines and 

 weeds w^hich trip him up. He may know that the sun 



