THE MOOSE 27 



part of the neck above water, like cattle. 

 When pursued in boats they frequently attempt 

 to upset them, and at times open their mouths 

 and make a loud snorting noise, striking at the 

 same time with their forefeet, and occasionally 

 sink the canoes of the Indians or hunters. Upon 

 one occasion, a young man going fishing, and 

 having his fowling-piece, on turning a point 

 of a lake, saw a large moose in the water 

 and fired at it with shot, tickling it severely. 

 The moose at once made for the canoe ; and 

 whilst the alarmed fisherman was attempting to 

 escape, his boat became entangled in the 

 branches of a fallen tree, when he was forced 

 to give up the canoe and get away as he best 

 could ; the animal on reaching the boat com- 

 pletely demolished it. Unfortunately the females 

 are sometimes killed when they are with calf. 

 They do not generally make any noise in the 

 woods, unless when provoked, but in captivity 

 they utter a plaintive sound. 



The procedure for shooting moose is some- 

 times as follows : The nearest man takes a 

 decided aim, as nearly as possible under the 

 forearm and through the neck, and fires, or, if 

 fronting the beast, in the centre of the breast. 



