1896
August 27
(No 8)
Lake Umbagog
Moose Point
success embarassing[sic] for when I was within a few yards 
of the creature he struck bottom and whirling about
faced me.The impetus of the canoe was so great that
I had difficulty in stopping it before running into
him. Out on the middle of the pond, [delete]smooth and[/delete]
shining from the light from the afterglow in the
west, his head and ears had shown distinctly enough
at the end of the furrow which he cut through
the smooth water but here, against the background
of dusky shore I could make out only a shapeless,
dusky object that for a few moments stood quite motionless.
I did not like to go nearer and I could not see much
where I sat although the camera was all the while within
at most fifteen or twenty feet. Finally I spoke to the
moose calling him by name and asking him whither he was
going. This having no visible effect I next shouted out at the 
top of my lungs. Instantly the beast turned and made
for the shore at a surprising rate of speed never once
jumping or floundering but moving apparently at a fast
smooth trot and reminding me of a snow plough as he
drew a deep furrow through the water.  This was the last
I saw of him but I heard him stop after going a few rods
back from the shore. He landed near the north-east end
of the island. By following his track next day we found that
he afterwards crossed to the north shore, swam the south
arm of the pond, followed the river bank to the south western
outlet of the pond and crossing this entered the stubs where
I found the Whistler's nest last May. We did not attempt
to trace him further.
[margin]Moose[/margin]
  I must now explain that my repeated use of the masculine
[delete]feminine[/delete] pronoun in the above account is not technically