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Hearne was the first to record moose from the Mackenzie region, 

 finding them " very plentiful " on the south side of Great Slave Lake 

 east of the mouth of Slave Eiver during the winter of 1771-72, while 

 on his way back to Fort Churchill during his famous journey of ex- 

 ploration/^ Harmon noted their occurrence on the plains of Peace 

 Kiver in 1808.^ During Franklin's first northern journey a moose was 

 killed near Fort Enterprise in the spring of 1821.^ During his 

 second expedition moose were killed on Ellice Island, near the mouth 

 of the Mackenzie, in the summer of 1825 ; and near Fort Franklin in 

 September of the same year, and in February, 1826.^ During the 

 spring of 1831, while Back's expedition was Avintering at Fort Reli- 

 ance, a moose was killed on ' Fish River ' (in all probability the 

 Thelon, or Ark-i-linik) several days' travel east of Great Slave Lake.^ 

 Simpson reports that tracks of moose were seen on MacTavish Bay, 

 Great Bear Lake, during the winter of 1837-38/ Ross recorded speci- 

 mens taken at Fort Good Hope,^' and Fort Simpson.'* Lockhart, 

 writing in 1865 on the habits of moose, states that they were rarely 

 killed in the vicinity of Fort Rae, though they were quite numerous 

 at Big Island and along the south shore of Great Slave Lake; and 

 that the moose of Peel River and the Yukon are much larger than 

 those in the Great Slave Lake region. ' While exploring in the country 

 between Athabaska Lake and Churchill River in the summer of 1892, 

 J. B. Tyrrell found that the moose occurred throughout the more 

 thickly wooded parts of the country as far north as Stone River, near 

 the- eastern end of Athabaska Lake.^' Russell states that a moose was 

 killed near the mouth of Yellowknife River, Great Slave Lake, in 

 August, 1893.^ A. J. Stone records the moose from several points in 

 the lower Mackenzie Valley, giving evidence as to the large size of the 

 animals found there, and from the headwaters of the Nahanni River, 

 where they abound.^ 



During the early autumn of 1895 a moose was killed by a member 

 of Loring's party near the headwaters of McLeod River; in the 

 autumn of 1896, fresh tracks were seen almost daily along the trail 

 between Smoky River and Jasper House. 



* Journey to Northern Ocean, p. 250, 1795. 



* Journal of Voyages and Travels, p. 174, 1820. 

 Narrative of Journey to Polar Sea, p. 299, 1823. 



^ Narrative of Second Expedition to Polar Sea, pp. 34, 57, 71, 1828. 

 ^ King, Narrative of Journey to Arctic Ocean, I, p. 192, 1836. 

 f Narrative Discoveries on North Coast of America, p. 216, 1843. 

 9 Can. Nat. and Geol., YI, p. 442, 1861. 

 ^Nat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 275, 1862. 



* Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, pp. 305, 307, 1891. 



^'Ann. Rept. Can. Geol. Surv., VIII (new ser.), p. 13D, 1896. 



^ Expl. in Far North, p. 80, 1898. 



' Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, p. 49, 1900. 



