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76 THE ELK. 
in which case they are often obliged to sa''^ 
themselves by climbing trees. 
The elk is easily domesticated. It 
follow its keeper to any distance from horo^' 
and return with him at his call. Hearne 
forms us, that an Indian at the factory 
Hudson’s Bay had, in the year 1777, two 
so tame, that when he was passing in a caii^^ 
from Prince of Wales’s Fort, they always 
lowed him along the bank of the river ; ai’ 
at night, or whenever he landed, they 
and fondled on him in the same manner ^ 
the most domestic animal would have doP^' 
and never attempted to stray from the tefl^®' 
One day, however, crossing a deep bay in 
of the lakes, in order to save a very circuital’ 
route along its bank, he expected that 
animals would follow him round as usual, 
at night they did not arrive, and as the ho" 
ing of wolves was heard in the quarter wh^*^^ 
they were, it is supposed that the elks 
