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wooded valley some one thousand five hundred 

 feet below us. I got down to, and killed him 

 without much difficulty, and he proved to be a 

 fine large animal with quite a pretty head, 

 measuring fifty-three inches in spread, and 

 having twenty-two points, eleven on each 

 side. 



This moose was in splendid condition, 

 literally as fat as a stall-fed ox ; but we found 

 that some time previously, probably in the early 

 spring, he had received a bullet wound in the 

 right shoulder, which had shattered the bone 

 at the elbow joint all to pieces. 



The wound, inflicted probably by the rifle 

 of a trapper, had apparently given him but little 

 inconvenience. There was no sign of inflam- 

 mation round the wound, and no sloughing, 

 the hole through the skin being filled with 

 powdered bone. I cut the shoidder oi:>en and 

 found several large pieces of detached bone 

 loose amongst the muscles, and the solid 

 ends of the bone were so far apart that I do 

 not think they would ever have become imited 

 again. 



