APPENDIX F 349 



The following are from Seton's note-book: 



According to T. Anderson, wolves often kill moose on the 

 Mackenzie. In February, 1905, he saw on the ice, thirty-four 

 miles below Providence, the marks where a band of wolves had 

 pulled down and devoured a moose. 



Edmund Nagle, fur trader at Fort Smith, gives the two follow- 

 ing items: 



In January, 1907, at Fort Providence, a trapper named Bap- 

 tiste Bouvier went out to look at his rabbit snares, when he came 

 on the tracks of a band of half a dozen wolves, evidently attack- 

 ing a cow moose. He followed half a mile and found the moose 

 just killed; they had not begun to eat her. The wolves ran off 

 and he brought the meat home on his dog sleigh. 



Again last July (1906), when Bouvier was resting for lunch 

 at a point twenty miles below Providence, he heard a crashing 

 in the woods and a moose broke out of the woods and into the 

 water, pursued by one wolf. He shot the moose but the wolf 

 escaped. The wolves commonly kill moose by hamstringing 

 them. 



Last winter (March, 1907), on Steep-Bank River, E. Robillard 

 says he saw a wolf running away. Then in the woods, near the 

 bank, he found the body of a yearling cow moose fresh killed; 

 its head was gone. He followed the back-track a long way and 

 learned that the wolf was alone, had pursued the moose for miles, 

 had finally disabled it by partly hamstringing it; but the moose 

 was not overcome until at last driven over a high place where 

 the fall crippled it. The trail had more and more blood up to 

 the place of the kill. Here it seems the moose's throat was torn 

 open, and the wolf had eaten until the head was off. The head 

 was gone, he could not tell where, and did not understand why, 

 or how; the "tripes" (entrails) of the moose were dragged for 

 half a mile across the river. 



About 1897 a large wolf appeared about Fort Smith and dogged 

 the rabbit trappers. Wherever they went to operate, this wolf 

 found the beat and stole their catch. At length he was poisoned 

 by Sousi Beaulieu, and it was found that his under jaw was 



