2 28 BIG GAME SHOOTING IN ALASKA chat. 



camp. He said that they had temporarily lost the services 

 of Andrew Berg, since the Deputy U.S. Marshal of that 

 district had discovered an illicit whisky still at Berg's cabin 

 and had arrested the owner and taken him to Kenai. The 

 younger Berg, by name Emile, seemed to me a particularly 

 smart-looking fellow, and Mr. Hasard said that the way in 

 which he found moose and took the sportsman up to them 

 was extraordinary. They had seen a number of good bulls, 

 but not one exceeding 70 inches according to Berg's estimate, 

 except the 74-inch head which Mr. Forbes had bagged a few 

 days previously. Emile Berg admitted to me that he was 

 only a novice when compared with his brother Andrew as a 

 hunter, but Mr. Hasard said that he had seen him call up a 

 bull moose quite close to them, in a similar manner to that in 

 which his brother calls them. My natives, and other people 

 who have hunted formerly with Andrew Berg, declare that 

 they have repeatedly seen him call up bull moose by imitating 

 the challenge call of another bull, and that they have even had 

 to take refuge behind trees to avoid being charged by a bull 

 called up in this way.^ Both the brothers Berg have the 

 reputation also of being able to judge the size of any head on 

 sight to within an inch or two of its actual measurements. 

 This is a great advantage, especially to a novice who has 

 never seen a moose before. Mr. Hasard modestly remarked 

 that as he had never previously killed anything larger than a 

 rabbit, the first moose they encountered looked to him as big 

 as an elephant, and that he should certainly have shot it, if 

 Berg had not told him it was only a small head, and had 

 promised ere long to show him one of over 70 inches' spread. 

 Berg carried out his part of the bargain, and when I next 



1 In Alaska the hunters do not attempt to use the cow's call, as is the case with the 

 Canadians, who prefer this call to that of the bull. 



