28 AMERICAN GAME. 
ever, I will beg the first Canadian or Nova Scotian 
hunter whose eye this may meet, to furnish me with the 
full statements of height, weight and measurement of 
any Cariboo he may be so fortunate as to kill, or to have. 
killed, during the present winter. Readers of Graham 
will find in the February number of the year 1852, a 
correct and spirited representation of the antlers of the 
English Red-deer ; and, if they will look forward to the 
months of February and August of this volume, they 
will find those of the Moose and American Deer, de- 
signed by myself from the life, which will far more 
easily convey the comparison which I desire to draw, 
than written words. 
As regards the nature of the pelage, or fur, for it is 
almost such, of the Cariboo, so far from its being, as the 
wiseacre of the Encyclopedia states, remarkable for 
closeness and compactness, it is by all odds the loosest 
and longest haired of any deer I ever saw; being, par- 
ticularly about the head and neck,so shaggy as to ap- 
pear almost maned. 
In color, it is the most grizzly of deer, and though 
comparatively dark brown on the back, the hide is gen- 
erally speaking, light, almost dun-colored, and on the 
head and neck fulvous, or tawny gray, largely mixed 
with white hairs. 
The fiesh is said to be delicious; and the leather made 
by the Indians from its skin, by their peculiar process, 
is of unsurpassed excellence for leggins, moccasons or 
