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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 17, 1906. 
notice me! I have seen from twenty to forty 
wild moose on each of my trips! I had well- 
known licensed guides, who admitted it was a 
shame to kill the harmless creatures! They 
never knew of a “bull moose charging on his 
prey.” They do not “roar” when being called, 
but come toward the call with an undetected 
quietude which is all the more remarkable be¬ 
cause of their size and apparent clumsiness. 
Moose feed in the rivers, ponds and lakes from 
early spring until the ice gets so strong it can¬ 
not be broken by their powerful hoofs. The 
Canadian open season for moose is before the ice 
closes the waters. My guides told me that the 
hunters in the region I visited killed their moose 
in the water while feeding on the submerged lily 
roots and water grasses. A moose in feeding 
often dives to the bottom, sometimes in ten feet 
of water. In any event his head is submerged 
for from 30 to 60 seconds. Any canoeist can 
approach them so that they can be touched with 
a paddle. This is not only in “fly time,” but 
during the month of October. Why a rifle? The 
little red bull on the Connecticut pasture would 
have a better chance of getting away. 
I saw many evidences of “skinning out the 
head and neck.” The evidences were the 
stranded carcasses of some enormous bull moose 
putrefying the clean water and air whose “head 
and neck” had been “skinned out.” I found 
heads abandoned beside the carcass of a bigger 
animal, that presumably had a bigger head. I 
know the name of an alleged moose hunter, a 
banker of Cleveland, who abandoned several 
heads, one after another, because the subsequent 
ones were larger than their predecessors. He and 
his party kept their guides on the water ways 
of the region I visited, moving steadily for two 
weeks, making a new camp every night, picking 
out the moose he wanted. 
He killed them all by sneaking upon them 
while feeding in the water. But his greediness 
came near costing him his life as well as that 
of his party and guides. The ice suddenly 
formed one night, and the party being over one 
hundred miles from a base of supplies, had to 
abandon heads, canoes and camp equipage and 
only reached civilization in a starving condition. 
This region I visited, shipped out last fall 135 
head of bull moose. If my guides were telling 
the truth, and I had no reason to doubt them, 
over 500 bull moose must have been killed and 
all but 25 per cent, abandoned. They asked me 
not to publish the evidences of what 1 had heard 
and seen, as the Canadian government might stop 
the killing of moose everywhere as they had done 
in the Algonquin Park district. And in further 
argument one of my guides said: “It would 
mean a hardship to us. Every American coming 
into this district on a moose hunt leaves with 
us from one to two hundred dollars.” 
If the present rate of killing is allowed to con¬ 
tinue the moose will be nearly annihilated or the 
remnant driven northward beyond the confines 
of Hudson Bay. 
The Canadian government owes it to the rest 
of the world to preserve this animal from ex¬ 
tinction. The meat is to be eaten only in ex¬ 
tremities. It is coarse, dry and unnutritious. 
Even the Indians will not eat it if they can get 
anything else. Nearly all the moose that in¬ 
habited our northern States have been killed off. 
A part of Canada will always be practically un¬ 
broken wilderness, and a home for ages for this 
animal if any protection is thrown around it. 
There is more sport and more pleasure photo¬ 
graphing one of these magnificent creatures, who 
standing on the shore of some beautiful nameless 
Canadian stream, throws his massive antlered 
head high in air, and gazes at you in big-eyed 
curiosity, and when that seems satisfied either 
resumes his feeding or ambles slowly out of the 
water into the recesses of the forest. 
The killing of deer, in the water, is prohibited 
in nearly every State in which they are found. 
Canada must stop the moose butchery. 
James Daly. 
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In Newfoundland. 
“I know where the timid fawn abides 
In the depths of the shaded dell, 
Where the leaves are broad and the thicket hides 
With its many stems and its tangled sides, 
From the eye of the hunter well.” 
—W. C. Bryant. 
The ordinary woodser, if called on suddenly 
to decide which season he prefers to view the 
haunts of nature, would be at a loss for a ready 
answer. A kaleidoscopic vision of the forest 
primeval as seen at various seasons would 
render it difficult for him to decide. Probably 
when the rude norther “uproots the woods and 
drowns the villages,” his mind would fondly 
travel back to the genial spring, when “the chant 
of birds, and chime of brooks, and soft caress 
of the fresh sylvan air, made him forget the 
thoughts that broke his peace, and he began to 
gather simples by the fountain’s brink, and lose 
himself in day dreams”; this again would quickly 
give place to the drowsy, golden summer day, 
and sick of the strenuous life and the hollowness 
of it all. he sought “the thick roof of green and 
stirring branches,” and realized what the poet 
meant when he sang: “The calm shade shall 
bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze that 
makes the green leaves dance shall waft a balm 
to thy sick heart. Thou wilt find nothing here 
of all that pained thee, in the haunts of men, 
and made thee loathe thy life.” 
And when the scene changes and comes 
“Autumn with his many fruits and woods all 
flushed with many hues,” and the days begin to 
shorten, the air become raw and the dark, 
ominous clouds pile on pile, will he not still 
sing with the poet: “When shrieked the bleak 
November winds, and smote the woods, and the 
brown fields were herbless, and the shades that 
wilt above the merry rivulet were spoiled, I 
sought, I loved them still; they seemed like old 
companions in adversity.” And when the 
chilling blasts of winter have changed the face 
of all nature and the “clouds from their still 
skirts had shaken down on earth the feathery 
snow, and all was white,” it still to the true 
woodser does not lose its attractiveness. He 
loves it in all its moods. 
Hence it is that the last contingent of Amer¬ 
ican anglers on their way home, met the advance 
guard of the caribou hunters coming to tread 
the woods and barrens in search of health and 
heads, “where the timid fawn abides.” And 
when the caribou season closed temporarily 
(from Oct. 1 till Oct. 20), these again, with their 
proudly displayed trophies, gave way to others, 
who are massing on the borders of the deer 
country, impatiently awaiting the dawn of the 
21st. 
As we have had a larger number of anglers 
this season than any other in our history, so 
it is with the hunters. They seem to have dis¬ 
covered that it is “dead easy” to stalk and secure 
a well formed head where “roams the majestic 
brute, in herds that shake the. earth with 
thundering steps.” 
From the various reports that have come in 
I glean that most of the hunters have had good 
sport. I inclose some cuttings from the local 
papers, which will interest the nimrods who 
have not been able to make dates for this sea¬ 
son. They may make notes, and perhaps later 
in the-season may make dates to try their luck, 
where the wilds are calling and “where the head 
of heads is feeding out of range.” 
“Up to Saturday last there was no frost re¬ 
ported on the mountains, which accounts for 
the scarcity of caribou along the section of the 
country through which the railway runs,” says 
the Western Star. “Sportsmen, who have lately 
returned from up country, report an abundance 
of caribou far afield, and no doubt they will 
soon be migrating south. By every express 
train a number of sportsmen go to join the 
Bruce, and nearly all of them are taking along 
from one to three heads. The large herds of 
caribou seen by Mr. Bigelow are those that 
summer on the plateau between Grand and Red 
Indian lakes, and winter but a short distance 
from their present haunts.” 
“A party of ten American hunters, who had 
been in Newfoundland for the past month shoot- 
in caribou,” says the Halifax Herald, “came on 
the Sydney flyer, Saturday night, and left at 
12 o’clock by the Halifax on their way to their 
respective homes. As trophies of the chase the 
returning hunters had ten splendid heads, many 
of the antlers showing as many as forty full- 
grown points. The party was led by Edwin 
Grant, the well-known Boston deer-stalker, who 
piloted his friends across the famous St. 
Patrick’s barrens, where the most of the heads 
were secured. The hunters say that the deer 
have not begun to trek to the south so far this 
season, the mild weather having kept them on 
the northern barrens. Following the twenty- 
day close season, beginning Oct. 1, some 
splendid hunting is looked for in the deer 
haunts along the line of railway. A party of 
forty Americans have already engaged guides, 
to hunt over those well-trodden spots during 
the waning days of the season.” 
Mr. J. P. Hazard, of Peace Dale, R. I., 
hunted around Adies Pond, and secured one 
head with twenty-six points. 
Dr.. Steele, of U. S. A., hunted caribou along 
Morris’ Brook, near North Branch, where he 
secured one fine head. 
Mr. G. M. Phelps and Mr. N. Edgar, of New 
York, who hunted caribou around Sandy Pond, 
returned home with three heads. 
Mr. Daniels and son, of Worcester. Mass., at 
Terra Nova, secured six heads, the largest of 
which carried thirty-eight points. 
^ Messrs. M. W. Hall. F. G. Mason, C. A. 
Colley and J. J. O’Neill, of Waterbury, Conn., 
returned home, Friday, after spending a fort¬ 
night in Birchy Pond region, where they secured 
three caribou. The heads were the best we 
have seen this year, and contained twenty-two, 
twenty-eight and twenty-four points. 
Dr. G. R. Pisek, Dr. R. L. Loughran, of 
New York, and Dr. Tinkham, of Vermont, 
hunted caribou on the eastern side of Grand 
lake, where they secured nine fairly good heads. 
Mr. Wm. Sinnott, who was shooting at the 
Topsails, secured two fine heads, each with- 
thirty-five points. 
Two Americans named Brewster, who were 
deer stalking at the Gaff Topsails, joined the 
express yesterday en route to New York, having 
each secured three splendid sets of antlers. 
Between Riverhead Lookout and Burnt Pond 
there are numerous barrens, and at this time of 
the year there are hundreds of caribou there. 
Doctors Murphy, Meyer and Johnson and 
their wives, who were shooting at Terra Nova, 
secured four sets of antlers. 
The hunter who needs more excitement than 
is furnished by deer stalking, can have his choice 
of wolves, bears, or lynx, as these clippings 
show they have been seen plentifully of late: 
The section men working at the Gaff Top¬ 
sails had an experience yesterday which tickled 
their nerves somewhat. Near Wolf Brook four 
large wolves were seen. This is the first time 
since the construction of the railway that these 
voracious creatures have been seen so near 
the tracks. The section men are not over 
desirous for their acquaintance, and in future 
will carry rifles. 
Black bears infest the country between 
Patrick’s Marsh and Gaff Topsails. One Amer¬ 
ican shot three last week on the Topsails and 
secured a stag’s head with forty points. 
There is a great scarcity of rabbits this sea¬ 
son. Lynxes are said to be responsible for the 
destruction of some hundreds of them during 
the present season. 
The partridge season opened on the 1st inst. 
Large numbers of local sportsmen shot over 
-the various grounds. Although they are not 
so plentiful as formerly, owing to the increase 
of hunters, and their destruction by lynx and 
foxes, yet some fairly good bags have been re¬ 
ported to date from the nearby grounds. The 
big sports who went further afield will not get 
in for a day or two later. They will probably 
bring in good bags and good reports. 
“The Reid Newfoundland Co. will send ex¬ 
hibits to the New York Sportsman’s Show, which 
opens in March next, and the Boston Sports- 
