THE HIGHLANDS OF THE SWEDISH DIVIDE. 255 
were paralyzed, and a *450 Express ball behind the 
shoulder terminated all conscious suffering, though in 
the final struggle he rolled off the narrow ridge, down 
the wooded slope, flattening birch and brush in a com¬ 
mon ruin, till finally brought up on the very verge of 
the crag. One more roll, and he would have plunged 
into the lake, forty feet below; but there he lay, upside 
down, his back caught on a rock, one foreleg hitched 
high in a tree, another trunk through his jaws, and 
anchored by his horns to earth. 
This elk, both in bulk of body and in horn, is the 
biggest I have shot. The span of his antlers, measured 
straight from tip to tip, was 46 inches ; length along 
inside curve, 28 inches; and circumference above burr, 
6 1 inches. He carried 15 spears, and his general pro¬ 
portions will be seen in the two drawings by Mr. Charles 
Whymper, which translate my own rough but careful 
sketches made on the spot.* 
Owing to the circumstance that the meat was 
divisible among five proprietors, I had an opportunity 
of obtaining some of the weights, from which the 
approximate live weight of this bull may be put at 
about 90 stone, or 1260 lbs. 
Kilos. lbs. 
Head, horns, and skin of neck 
40 = 88 
Neck ... ... ... . 
60 = 132 
Two fore-quarters (each forty-six) ... 
92 = 202 
Two haunches (each fifty-four) 
108 = 237 
Two sides (ribs) (each forty) .. 
80 = 176 
Skin (estimated at) ... 
say 165 
1000 
* In the drawing of the dead elk (p. 258), there is a slip in the 
relative sizes of man and beast. The hunter is shown quite dispro¬ 
portionately Mg: thus dwarfing the huge bulk of the bull-elk. 
