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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
MOOSE AND CARIBOO HUNTING. 
OR the pursuit of neither of these noble 
animals, the largest, fleetest, and most 
wary game on earth, is the assistance of 
either hound or horse available. The 
nature of the ground which they inha¬ 
bit, and over which they must be pur¬ 
sued, render the use of the horse out of 
the question, consisting of the densest 
and most impervious brakes of the pine, larch, and white cedar 
forests, which cover so large a portion of the districts which they 
most affect, and being very often interspersed with deep bogs, 
and insecure morasses, affording foothold to no tread, save that 
>f the cleft hoof of the ruminating animals. 
How animals of the bulk and weight of these huge Deer, can 
force themselves between the stems of the thickset evergreen 
saplings, among which a man can with difficulty work his way 
only by slow degrees, is .in itself no easy matter to comprehend ; 
but when to size and weight is superadded the vast burthen of 
ponderous and spreading antlers, which they bear on their 
heads—in a full grown bull Moose exceeding 50 lbs. weight— 
and which, one would imagine, must hopelessly entangle them 
in the brake, it is impossible to account for the ease and celerity 
with which they will pass through the heaviest growth of forest. 
The hunter is compelled, therefore, to pursue—when he does 
pursue —both these giants of the cervine race on foot; and for 
this reason hounds are rendered as unavailable as horses; since 
the speed of the animal, when once alarmed, is so great, that it 
is very questionable whether even in open country, and with 
mounted hunters, it could be run down, or even run from scent 
into view, by the fleetest Fox-hounds. When we consider hew- 
