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of day." He is by kind nature provided with 

 a soft down which lines the underside of his 

 wings, so that his flight is noiseless, and this 

 provision helps him in hunting for his sus- 

 tenance, even on the darkest of nights. It 

 is thus that an all-wise Creator enables birds 

 of prey that hunt only by night to seek for 

 and secure their food. 



But now we were to hunt the moose in a 

 different manner, by means of a moose-drive, 

 and this is how it was arranged. To the 

 north of where we had been hunting, the 

 river on both sides was fringed with a fairly 

 thick cover of timber consisting for the most 

 part of balsam fir and spruce trees. The 

 banks of the river were quite steep, and only 

 in places where a stream poured its waters 

 into the river could the horses, by following 

 the bed of the stream, be taken to the plateau 

 above. 



The plan was for the two guides and we, the 

 hunters, to leave camp at six o'clock, travel 

 down the bed of the river for a distance of 

 five miles, and then, following a creek up to 

 the highlands, pick out a place where each 

 hunter could keep his eyes on a moose run- 

 way for some distance in front of him. 



Two hours after the hunters had left, the 



