American Big Game in its Haunts 



but these are few and far between, and one must 

 count upon warping the boat from tide water to 

 within two miles of the lake an estimated dis- 

 tance of between thirty-five and forty miles. 



We had hardly got started the following day 

 before it began to rain heavily. We were soon 

 wet to the skin and thoroughly chilled, but we 

 kept on until late in the afternoon, when we 

 camped in a small Indian cabin some three miles 

 from the lake. 



It stormed hard during the night with such 

 heavy wind that we much feared that we should be 

 unable to cross the lake the next day. In the 

 morning, however, the wind had gone down, and 

 we made an early start. Just before reaching the 

 mouth of the river we sighted game for the first 

 time. A cow moose with her calf were seen on 

 the bank. They stood idly watching our boats for 

 a short time, and then slowly ambled off into the 

 brush. 



Occasionally as the river had made some big 

 bend we had been able to sight the mountains 

 which were to be our shooting grounds. Day by 

 day they had grown nearer and nearer, and finally, 

 after one week of this toilsome travel, we glided 

 from the river to the crescent-shaped lake, and 

 they now rose close before us. 



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