54 $rfos<ffi?nglairtrs ivarittrs. 



The Moofe-Deer} 



The Moofe Deer, which is a very goodly Creature, fome 

 of them twelve foot high, with exceeding fair Horns with 

 broad Palms, fome of them two fathom from the tip of 

 one Horn to the other; they commonly have three 

 Fawns at a time, their flefh is not dry like Deers flefh, 

 but moift and lufhious fomewhat like Horfe flefh (as they 

 judge that have rafted of both) but very wholfome. The 

 flefh of their Fawns is an incomparable difh, beyond the 

 flefh of an Affes Foal fo highly efteemed by the Romans, 

 or that of young Spaniel Puppies fo much cried up in our 

 days in France and England. 



Moofe Horns better for Phyfick Ufe than Harts Horns. 



Their Horns are far better (in my opinion) for Phyfick 

 than the Hopris of other Deer, as being of a ftronger 

 nature: As for their Claws, which both EnglifJimen and 

 French make ufe of for Elk, I cannot [20] approve fo to 

 be from the Effects, having had fome trial of it; befides, 



1 See Voyages, pp. 88-91. Called moos-soog (rendered "great-ox; or, rather, 

 red deer") in R. Williams's Key (Hist. Coll., vol. iii. p. 223) : but this is rather 

 the plural form of moos; as see the same, I. c. p. 222, and note, and Rasles' 

 Didt. Abnaki, in loco. It is called mongsba by the Cree Indians; and, it should 

 seem, mongsoos by the Indians of the neighborhood of Carlton House; as see 

 Richardson, in Sabine's Appendix to Franklin's Narrative of a Journey to the 

 Polar Sea, pp. 665-6. •" The English," says Wood, " have some thoughts of 

 keeping him tame, and to accustome him to the yoke ; which will be a great 

 commodity. . . . There be not many of these in the Massachusetts Bay; but, 

 forty miles to the north-east, there be great store of them." — Neiu-Eng. Pros- 

 fe&. I. c. On hunting the moose, as practised by the Indians, see Josselyn's 

 Voyages, p. 136. 



