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ing us. I took my small Austrian scale and some 

 rope with me, and after having cut it up, we weighed 

 the carcass carefully, and then lowered the various 

 portions to below the falls with a rope. 



The different sections weighed as follows: 



Skin of head and neck (uncleaned) . . 7^ kilos 



Head and horns (without skin) .... 20 " 



Two hind-quarters together ..... 78 " 



Two shoulders together ...... 50 " 



Barrel (with all the inside, including 



lungs, liver and heart, removed) . . .45 " 



Neck and part of brisket ...... 48 " 



Skin ............ 20 



1 kilos. 



This works out to 725 Ibs., 2\ ozs., or 51 stone, n 

 Ibs. ; and as this weight was taken after the rutting 

 season, this particular wapiti might have weighed 60 

 stone clean when in very high condition, or possibly 

 about uoo Ibs., live weight, for the gralloch I have 

 found is about one quarter of an animal's live weight, 

 both with antelopes and deer. Although this was 

 probably considerably the heaviest of the few wapiti 

 bulls I shot, yet when it is considered that there now 

 only exists a poor remnant of the enormous herds of 

 these splendid animals which once existed in Western 

 America, and that those which still survive are now 

 excluded from the rich pasturage of their former 

 winter ranges by the encroachments of civilised man, 

 one can hardly help believing that wapiti bulls weigh- 

 ing 1 200 Ibs. as they stood must have been common 



