CHAPTER XVI 



HOW THE ELK IS HUNTED 



Of the various methods of hunting elk in the 

 Eastern Hemisphere, the method which is most 

 common in the Western Hemisphere is probably 

 the least practiced. This method is still-hunting, 

 or stalking. Still-hunting makes too great de- 

 mands on physical endurance to be attractive 

 to a large class of European sportsmen. Further- 

 more, it is objected that the rough timbered 

 mountain-sides of Norway, and the low marshy 

 thickets of the Baltic coast, are too difficult of 

 access for successful stalking. 



I Many European sportsmen, indeed, fail to 



catch the true spirit of still-hunting in the quest 



for big game. Captain C. R. E. Radclyffe, an 



Englishman, thus wrote of a moose hunt in Alaska: 



''A more monotonous, uninteresting, and often 



tiring performance I have never indulged in, the 



only skill required being such as is supplied by a 



sharp pair of eyes and ears, in addition to the power 



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