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in the Kenai Peninsula in Southern Alaska, but 

 the moose in that locality appear to be a local 

 race in which the average size of the horns is 

 much larger than in any other part of North 

 America. 



My big moose was killed hundreds of miles 

 from the Kenai Peninsula on a western spur of 

 the main range of the Rocky ]\Iountains, and 

 I think I may fairly say that it is one of the 

 biggest and heaviest moose heads ever obtained 

 in British North America, and it is at any rate 

 the finest hunting trophy that has ever fallen 

 to my rifle. 



As soon as I had taken the necessary 

 measurements of the dead moose, and after 

 a few moments of quiet exultation over the 

 splendid prize I had won, I set to work to cut 

 off and skin the enormous head, as, had it 

 been left until the following day, it would have 

 frozen solid during the night, and would then 

 have been very difiicult to remove. 



It was nearlj^ six o'clock when Louis got the 

 headskin packed, and we then started at once 

 for camp, which we reached at last in about 



