294 THE OLD'IVORLD ELK 



two successive days in 1904 in which ^^der oberste 

 Jagdherr^^ killed one small elk each day. His 

 army of beaters numbered 300 men. While still- 

 hunting, on foot and by boat, on the same visit to 

 East Prussia, the Kaiser saw no game.'° 



Elk occasionally migrate from Russia into Ger- 

 man territory. Skrowronnek tells of such an 

 instance, in 1904, when many Russian elk were 

 driven by a forest fire from their native cover, and 

 took refuge in the woods beside the German Memel. 

 And an English woman, instructor of the Kaiser's 

 daughter, relates how an elk, migrating from 

 Russia, was reported as being seen in the imperial 

 hunting domain of Rominten in East Prussia seven 

 or eight years ago. "The Kaiser ordered out all 

 the automobiles and carriages," she wrote, "and 

 that every available person was to serve as beater. 

 Her Majesty and the Princess and the ladies 

 being specially invited in that capacity. . . . 



"The car flew along, the Emperor talking volubly 

 about the Elch and its habits, and his hopes of 

 slaying the confiding creature; and at last we were 

 deposited about eight miles from home on a rather 

 squelchy, marshy piece of ground, where we were 

 met by Baron von Sternburg and commanded to 

 follow him in perfect silence, the Emperor mean- 



'° Lustiges Weidwerk (Berlin, 1905), pp. 13, 79. 



