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covering him, and Wolcott shot him as he lay there 

 and again as he got to his feet, while three more 

 bullets went into the running animal before he was 

 finished. After dressing and removing the head, 

 they brought it into camp about six o'clock. With- 

 out any exception this is the most beautiful moose 

 head the writer has ever seen; the palms are not 

 unusually long, nor is the spread of fifty-six inches 

 remarkable, but the horns are very massive, perfect 

 in symmetry and balance, with the points not worn 

 as is usual with the larger and older bulls. The 

 scalp is almost black, blending into brown; the bell 

 is six inches long, but this is due to the fact that 

 in this country it is extremely rare to find a moose 

 whose bell is not frozen off, leaving a short beard- 

 like projection. 



September 4. We are all doubtless familiar with 

 the lion-hunting methods in vogue in East Africa, 

 where many natives surround a donga to which a 

 lion has been traced, and then with drums, kettles, 

 and any noise-making implement begin to advance 

 through the donga, making an unholy racket and 

 causing the frightened lion to leave the cover and 

 come into the open, where he is dispatched by the 

 hunter. 



Dixon proposed a similar plan for a moose hunt, 

 which he calls a " drive," and which seemed to the 

 writer to be an unsportsmanlike method of hunting, 

 but which, merely by reason of its novelty and to 



