1 64 THE UPPER YUKON 



lungs, leaving an opening large enough for 

 me to put my whole fist into. When the 

 scalp was removed it revealed a dreadful 

 looking mass of puss, while the flesh was ham- 

 mered and bruised beyond belief. The re- 

 moval of the hide the next day showed a simi- 

 lar condition of the lower part of the body, 

 while another swipe of the antlers had pene- 

 trated the tough hide on his right rump and 

 ripped it open for a length of thirteen inches. 

 Unquestionably his rival must have had the 

 best of the fight and yet he did not know it. 

 This big bull would have had a sure but per- 

 haps a lingering death in two or three days, 

 as the tearing of the hide and the dreadful 

 opening into the lungs would surely have 

 finished him. As our bull came off with the 

 three cows under his charge, he was in truth 

 the victor, the battle having been made solely 

 to determine which bull should control these 

 three complacent cows and compel them to 

 acknowledge him as their master. 



This moose had a spread of antlers of sixty- 

 one and a half inches, not nearly as wide as 

 those of the young bull that was saved by a 

 sandfly, whose spread we estimated as seventy 

 inches. But there was no comparison when 

 the size of their bodies was considered. This 



