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distance to which they occasionally travel, and the privations they undergo on 
their horse-stealing excursions, are almost incredible. An Indian who owns a 
horse scarcely ever ventures to sleep after nightfall, but sits at his tent door with 
the halter in one hand and his gun in the other, the horse’s fore-legs being at the 
same time tied together with thongs of leather. Notwithstanding all this care, 
however, it often happens that the hunter, suffering himself to be overpowered by 
sleep for only a few minutes, awakes from the noise made by the thief gallopping 
off with the animal. 
The Spokans, who inhabit the country lying between the forks of the Columbia, 
as well as some other tribes of Indians, are fond of horse-flesh as an article of 
food; and thie residents at some of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s posts on that 
river, are under the necessity of making it their principal article of diet. 
("34 1. Cervus ances. (Linn.) Moose Deer. 
_ Genus, Cervus. Linn. 
Ellan, stagg, or aptaptou. Dr Mont’s Nova Francia, p. 250. An. 1604. 
Eslan ou orignat. Sacarp-TuHeEopatT, Canada, p. 749. An. 1636. 
Orignal. La Hontan, Voy., p. 72. An. 1703. 
Moose deer. Dupiey, Phil. Trans, No. 368. p. 165. An. 1721. 
Orignac. Hist. de Amerique. An. 1723. 
Orignal. Cwartevorx, Nouv. France, vol. v. p. 185. An. 1744. Drnys, Descr. de ? Amer, vol. i. p. 27. p. 163 5 
vol. ii. pp. 321, 425. Du Prarz, Louis, vol. i. p. 301. 
Moose deer. PENNANT, Arctic Zool., vol. i. p.17. Cum fig. An. 1784. 
Moose. UmrreviLie, Huds. Bay. An. 1790. HeEnriot’s Trav. An. 1807. With a good figure. 
Moose deer. WanrpEn, United States, vol. i. p. 328. Gopman, Nat. Hist., vol. ii. p. 274. 
Cervus alces. Harwan, Fauna, p. 229. Gnirritu, An. King., vol. iv. p.72. A good figure of the head. 
* Orignac. BasauE SETTLERS IN CanaDa.” (De Monts.) 
Orignal. Frencu Canapians of the present day. 
Moosé’. Cree Inprans. Denyai. CurPEWYANS. 
** Sondareinta. Hurowns.” (Theodat.) 
The Moose Deer is said to derive its present English name from its Algonquin 
and Cree appellation of mongsoa or moosoa. It early attracted the attention of 
travellers in America, and various descriptions of it appear in their works, some 
oi which are quoted above. Live specimens have occasionally been brought to 
