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We stood still for five minutes, and then decided 

 the moose would not run far as he had not seen us 

 and was not greatly frightened. Albert started out 

 and made a circle of three miles, reporting on his 

 return that the animal was somewhere within the 

 circle; so we started out to locate him, and had 

 climbed a high ridge and were about to descend to 

 a ravine and climb a low hill on the other side. 

 Albert became a bit careless, and said: "Moose 

 other side hill " ; even as he spoke, the bull heard 

 his voice and jumped up. Two of my shots missed, 

 as he vanished over the ridge out of sight, but he 

 came in sight again four hundred yards away and 

 stood for a moment, when by good luck rather than 

 good shooting I placed a shot through the body, 

 which severely wounded him, but did not bring him 

 down. At once we took up the red trail on the 

 snow and followed it a number of miles; frequently 

 the moose stopped to eat snow, but invariably 

 forged ahead. We tracked him seven miles and 

 then abandoned the chase on account of darkness, to 

 resume the tracking the following day, when Albert 

 said the moose would be dead. 



The climbing up to camp in the darkness was slow 

 and difficult work on the snow slope, but after sev- 

 eral hours we reached our brush shelter and built 

 a roaring fire, before which we dried out our wet 

 garments and roasted a hindquarter of the calf cari- 

 bou suspended from a stick above the coals. Albert 



