American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . ntario sideinto Lake Temiskaming. A number of snap shots were obtained duringthe three days stay in this vicinity, but the otherswere at longer range and the animals appear verysmall in the negative. As is well known, during the hot summermonths the moose are often to be found feedingon the lily pads or cooling themselves in the water,being driven from the bush where there are heat,mosquitoes and flies. Not having been shot at nor hunted, all themoose at this time seemed rather easy to ap-proach. Two of these pictures a
American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . ntario sideinto Lake Temiskaming. A number of snap shots were obtained duringthe three days stay in this vicinity, but the otherswere at longer range and the animals appear verysmall in the negative. As is well known, during the hot summermonths the moose are often to be found feedingon the lily pads or cooling themselves in the water,being driven from the bush where there are heat,mosquitoes and flies. Not having been shot at nor hunted, all themoose at this time seemed rather easy to ap-proach. Two of these pictures are of one bull,and the other two of one cow, the two animalstaken on different occasions. I got three snaps ofeach before they were too far away. When firstsighted, each was standing nibbling at the lily 437 American Big Game in its Haunts pads, and the final spurt in the canoe was madein each case while the animal stood with headclear under the water, feeding at the bottom. Thedistance of each of the first photographs takenwas from 45 to 5 5 feet. Paul J. Dashiell. 438. A KAHRIGUR TIGER. Two Trophies from India In the early part of March, 1898, my friend,Mr. E. Townsend Irvin, and I arrived at thebungalow of Mr. Younghusband, who was Com-missioner of the Province of Raipur, in CentralIndia. Mr. Younghusband very kindly gave usa letter to his neighbor, the Rajah of Kahrigur,who furnished us with shikaris, beaters, bullockcarts, two ponies and an elephant. We had variedsuccess the first three weeks, killing a bear, sev-eral nilghai, wild boar and deer. One afternoon our beaters stationed themselveson three sides of a rocky hill and my friend andI were placed at the open end some two hun-dred yards apart. The beaters had hardly begunto beat their tom toms and yell, when a roar camefrom the brow of the hill, and presently a largetiger came out from some bushes at the came cantering along in a clumsy fashion overan open space, affording us an excellent shot, andwhen he was
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