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the strain would release the clog, which would 

 fall, and the noose would be drawn taut. The 

 animal would struggle, of course, but the end was 

 never greatly in doubt. The moose's indifferent 

 vision made this method of hunting easy, and 

 many moose have been taken by Indians in this 

 way.^ 



In winter, with the snow deep and crusted, the 

 Indian on his snowshoes found the moose an easy 

 victim, without other appliances than his bow and 

 stone ax. This system of hunting was much more 

 frequently practiced than driving. A story of 

 hunting on the crust is told by Baron de Lahontan, 

 a young Frenchman who spent some time among 

 the Indians of Canada.^ His hunting trip was 

 made in the winter of 1685-86, "forty leagues 

 north of the River St. Lawrence.'' 



"I spent the entire time hunting moose (on- 



s Campbell Hardy describes a somewhat different method of snaring 

 practiced by the white settlers in Nova Scotia more than sixty years 

 ago. Snaring was illegal at the time. See Sporting Adventures in the 

 New World (London, 1855), vol. i., pp. 180, 189. Campbell Hardy 

 represents the best type of British sportsman. His books, though long 

 out of print, have given pleasure to two generations of readers. His 

 readers of the present day will be glad to know that "Lieut." Hardy, in 

 the person of Maj.-Gen. Campbell Hardy, was still living in 1914 at 

 Dover, Eng. His interest in sports is unabated. 



^ Nouveaux Voyages dans VAmerique Septentrionale (The Hague, 

 1703). vol. i., pp. 73-77. See also Jesuit RelaPions (1651-52), voL 

 Txxvii., pp. 195-197. 



