Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . his senseless, wasteful butchery theybecame practically extinct. In years gone by, when the bison were movingover the prairies of the North-West, they are saidto have covered the earth as with a black mantle,so numerous were they. Boats on the rivers,and even railway trains, were often brought to astandstill by the crossing of these animals. The Musk=0x. Next to the bison the rarest of North Americanbig game is the musk-ox. This animal makes his home in the BarrenGrounds of Northern Canada, the country east ofthe
Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . his senseless, wasteful butchery theybecame practically extinct. In years gone by, when the bison were movingover the prairies of the North-West, they are saidto have covered the earth as with a black mantle,so numerous were they. Boats on the rivers,and even railway trains, were often brought to astandstill by the crossing of these animals. The Musk=0x. Next to the bison the rarest of North Americanbig game is the musk-ox. This animal makes his home in the BarrenGrounds of Northern Canada, the country east ofthe Mackenzie River and north of the Great SlaveLake. Into this frozen wilderness very few hunterscare to venture, and there is thus little fear of hisspeedy extinction. In appearance the musk-ox may not be hand-some, but he is certainly striking. One seesa huge oblong mass of long brown hair, outof which peers a black-muzzled head surmountedby a pair of broad, downward-sweeping hairy overcoat is sometimes so long thatit actually sweeps the snow on each side as hewalks,. I30 CANADA. The Moose. More plentiful in the lower latitudes is thegreat moose, or elk, the largest of the deer tribe. InNew Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the northern partsof Ontario and Quebec, thanks to Government pro-tection, this animal is abundant. A pair of moose antlers makes a splendid trophyfor the sportsman, and in the market a good maleshead will fetch fifty or sixty pounds. In the winter months the moose, like some otherdeer, yard up. A family, or perhaps two or threetogether, will select a favourite cedar or spruceswamp and make this their headquarters, returningto it constantly after going abroad for food. Sounding the eali. Moose-hunters generally follow their quarry onsnow-shoes, but a favourite method—borrowed fromthe Indians—is to attract them by imitating theirpeculiar cry. The hunters lie hidden in the forest near a clear-ing, and one of them blows through a birch horn,varying the s
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