THE MUSK-OX. 
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the hunters, who must he very dexterous 
evade them. They can defend themselves hy 
their powerful horns against wolves and hears> 
which, as the Indians say, they not unfr^' 
quently kill. The musk-oxen feed on 
same substances as the reindeer, and 
prints of the feet of these two animals are 
much alike, that it requires the eye of 
experienced hunter to distinguish them.” 
The largest killed by Captain Franklin® 
party did not exceed three hundred pouo^* 
in weight : while the hulls killed hy Capt^*^’^ 
Parry’s people weighed, upon an avera^^j 
seven hundred pounds, yielding four hundr® 
pounds of meat, and standing about ten han^® 
and a half high at the withers. 
