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where the ground was almost impassable with 

 fallen timber, I stopped. . . . The cow immedi- 

 ately came up, circled almost within reach, and 

 then was struck by the scent. The effect was 

 instantaneous and remarkable. . . . With a quick 

 awkward plunge, she made off at her fastest gait.'* 



F. C. Selous, in his Recent Hunting Trips in 

 British North America^ tells of still-hunting in 

 the snow in the Yukon Mountains "'where in all 

 probability the foot of a white man had never 

 trodden before." "I stood literally within ten 

 paces of the sleeping moose," he writes. A 

 bullet in the neck gave the Englishman a fine fat 

 moose with antlers spreading 58^ inches. 



On another occasion, two years later, in the 

 East Yukon country, firing at a large bull from a 

 rocking canoe he made a miss. The distance was 

 less than thirty yards. "He stood perfectly 

 still, right in the open ground, and broadside on, 

 with his head turned toward us. . . . But the 

 moose never moved a muscle until my second shot 

 struck him. . , . Then he turned slowly round 

 and walked toward the forest behind him." Mr. 

 Selous was using a single-shot rifle. Two more 

 bullets ended the hunt.^^ 



»s Pages 16, 182. The moose was shot September 8, 1904. 

 Uhi supra, p. 371. 



