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ure, but I call it simply satisfying an 

 idle ambition. I might have felt differ- 

 ently had I been in need of the meat 

 or if I were hunting for a living. But 

 as I was not, I could not bring myself 

 to think I had done just the right thing. 

 It is needless to say that a few- 

 minutes later, when 2 of these mon- 

 archs of the wood stood within 50 

 yards of me, I did not raise my rifle 

 nor allow one of my men to molest 

 them ; yet I could plainly see that 



I do not understand. Such a man 

 certainly cannot be a sportsman. Yet 

 I know men who claim to be sports- 

 men and who talk loudly about pro- 

 tecting these animals, but whose acts 

 prove them merely traffickers in the 

 heads and hides of Alaskan game. 



The last moose I killed was of im- 

 mense size. He would have weighed, 

 at a moderate calculation, over 1800 

 pounds ! He measured 7 feet io^ inches 

 at the withers and 9 feet 1 1 inches girth. 



AMATEUR PHO 



ALASKAN WHITE SHEEP, O VIS D ALU. 



ARRY E. LEE 



one of them had horns far superior to 

 those I had just killed. We saw sev- 

 eral other moose on our way down 

 the coast, but not a shot was fired at 

 any of them. 



I consider moose hunting, in a 

 country where they are plentiful, the 

 tamest sport a mm can find. It is 

 like shooting cattle in a pasture. 

 How a man can slaughter these harm- 

 less animals either for pleasure or 

 profit, or cause it to be done by others, 



We had to cut him in quarters to turn 

 him over so we could get the skin off 

 the neck. The Indian who was with 

 me had seen hundreds of these bull 

 moose, but said this was the largest 

 he had ever seen or heard of. 



I was successful in getting all of my 

 heads and skins to the coast, and on 

 our way down I got a number of speci- 

 mens of rare birds, such as the eider 

 duck, black crested swan, princess 

 goose, tufted puffins, etc. 



