332 THE OLD-WORLD ELK 



elk from boats in spring and summer when the 

 animals have taken refuge in the water from the 

 attacks of insects. The boats are covered with 

 the boughs of trees, and the slaughter is accom- 

 plished as the hunters thus shielded drift slowly- 

 down the stream.'^ Another expedient resorted 



A Scandinavian Poacher's Device 



to in Siberia in summer is a system of fire hunting.. 

 A boat is covered with green brush, and equipped 

 with a raised wire basket in which pine knots are 

 burned. At night the boat is slowly and silently 

 paddled about in search of game. At sight of the 

 fire an elk will stand and face it, until the hunter 

 has come near enough to shoot.^^ 



Lloyd tells of pitfalls formerly common in 



»9 UU supra, p. 34. " Ihid., p. 88. 



