48 THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



New Brunswick. — Only 194 non-residents 

 hunted big game in 191 8; in 19 19 the number was 

 475, more than 95 per cent of whom were from 

 the United States. The kill of moose in 19 18 was 

 only 613, due in part to the fact that the sale of 

 game meat was for the first time prohibited in 

 the Province. The number of moose killed in 

 1919 was 1430. The average yearly kill for the 

 five years ending in 1916 was 1546. "I believe 

 that moose are holding their own/' writes the 

 Chief Game Warden; accordingly it is not to be 

 assumed that the reduced kill is due to scarcity 

 of moose in the woods. (See Appendix, pages 

 362, 364-) 



Northwest Territories. — ^This region comprises 

 a vast area in the latitude of Alaska and southern 

 Greenland. The white inhabitants number less 

 than 20,000, in addition to whom there are 3700 

 Indians, and about an equal number of Eskimos. 

 Moose are plentiful in the valley of the Mac- 

 kenzie, as far as the western and southern 

 shores of Great Bear Lake, and in the Great Slave 

 Lake region. In less numbers they are found in the 

 wooded valleys which extend even into the Barren 

 Lands — the great treeless waste which includes 

 the northeastern half of the Territories. Twenty- 



