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THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



vicious rogues among African elephants, buffaloes, 

 and rhinoceroses." 



An affidavit attesting the facts satisfied the 

 Secretary of the Department of Colonization, 

 Mines, and Fisheries at Quebec, and no official 

 notice was taken of the technical breach of the 

 game law. 



Conflicting opinions regarding the pugnacity 

 of moose in their relations with human beings may 

 be reconciled if we consider that moose some- 

 times — but not often — experience a condition 

 akin to insanity among men. The normal moose 

 is harmless. 



If there are more than three or four authenti- 

 cated cases of men losing their lives in the woods 

 as the result of being attacked by moose, the 

 author has been unable to find them mentioned 

 in the published literature relating to moose 

 hunting, or in the stories told by woodsmen whom 

 he has met. He is thus forced to the conclusion 

 that the danger of attack is a negligible quantity. 



"The hunter has been injured much oftener 

 by the common Virginia deer than by the moose. 

 Near Fort Norman on the Mackenzie, a few years 

 ago, a wounded bull charged and killed an Indian 

 hunter who in his effort to escape was held by his 

 clothing catching on a snag. Had the bull missed 



