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jjkfo=<£ttglantos Parities. 
The Moofe-Deer} 
The Moofe Deer, which is a very goodly Creature, fome 
of them twelve foot high, with exceeding fair Horns with 
broad Palms, fome of them two fathom from the tip of 
one Horn to the other; they commonly have three 
Fawns at a time, their flefh is not dry like Deers flefh, 
but moift and lufhious fomewhat like Horfe flefh (as they 
judge that have tafted of both) but very wholfome. The 
flefh of their Fawns is an incomparable difh, beyond the 
flefh of an Afles Foal fo highly efteemed by the Romans, 
or that of young Spaniel Puppies fo much cried up in our 
days in France and England. 
Moofe Horns better for Phyfick Ufe than Harts Horns. 
Their Horns are far better (in my opinion) for Phyfick 
than the Horns of other Deer, as being of a ftronger 
nature: As for their Claws, which both Englifhmen and 
French make ufe of for Elk, I cannot [20] approve fo to 
be from the Effects, having had fome trial of it; befides, 
1 See Voyages, pp. 88-91. Called moos-soog (rendered "great-ox; or, rather, 
red deer") in R. Williams's Key (Hist. Coll., vol. iii. p. 223) : but this is rather 
the plural form of moos; as see the same, I. c. p. 222, and note, and Rasles' 
Di<5t. Abnaki, in loco. It is called mongsSa by the Cree Indians; and, it should 
seem, motigsoos by the Indians of the neighborhood of Carlton House; as see 
Richardson, in Sabine's Appendix to Franklin's Narrative of a Journey to the 
Polar Sea, pp. 665-6. "The English," says Wood, "have some thoughts of 
keeping him tame, and to accustome him to the yoke ; which will be a great 
commodity. . . . There be not many of these in the Massachusetts Bay; but, 
forty miles to the north-east, there be great store of them." — Neiv-Eng. Pros- 
fed, I. c. On hunting the moose, as practised by the Indians, see Josselyn's 
Voyages, p. 136. 
