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ANOTHER NtSr OF THREE CORMORANTS, 10 DAYS OLDER THAN THE TWO IN THE 
PRECEDING PICTURE 
Unlike young gulls of a much younger age, they do not leave the nest when alarmed, but 
groan and disgorge the contents of their stomachs. The cormorants in this picture disgorged 
two quarts of fish from their pouches when the author appeared to photograph them. 
land, I made up my mind that this would 
be the place where the spruce blind 
should be erected and my first efforts 
made in getting pictures. 
OUR FIRST SIGHT OE THE GIANT AEASKA 
MOOSE 
What happened the following day is 
described in extracts from my notebook : 
"July 24, igii — Ther., 68-50. 
"At 9 a. m., in a bright sun and a dead 
calm, we started to look for the moose 
hck near the shore, and situated, accord- 
ing to directions, at the westerly base of 
a long point, which I took to be the one 
heading towards the lower end of Cari- 
bou Island. In half an hour the canoe 
entered the channel between the island 
and the point, and in a few minutes we 
swung around towards the bite of the 
bay. Tom said that the previous winter 
he had run 14 moose, principally bulls, 
off the island while crossing the ice with 
a dog-sled carrying provisions from Cook 
Inlet to a mining camp, but he did not 
think we would see any bulls now, as 
they were all hiding in the thickets well 
up towards the mountain-tops. 
"-\ moment later he whispered, 'Gee ! 
there's a bull, and a big one, too.' What 
I had taken for the brown soil on the 
roots of an overturned tree was a large 
moose with antlers that excited attention, 
but no more so than the tawny color of 
its coat. I had never seen such horns 
before nor such a color. The moose was 
solemnly watching the canoe, with the 
greater portion of the antlers shoved up 
into the lower branches of a spruce. 
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