. In pine-tree jungles; a hand-book for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . SUFFOi K ENC. A ELECTR, CO, BOSTO SHOT IN THE R. c^ A. JUNGLE. 55 W^Here tHe Big Game Hide. OF Maines total land surface, nearly 23,000 square miles are still a forest wilderness, and by far the larger part of thisgreat jungle-land is in the Bangor & Aroostook means that the man who comes to hunt big gamein the Pine Tree State can ride in the height of railroad comfortand luxury to the very runways and yards of the great forestdenizens. He will find plenty of game within sound of the locomo-tiv
. In pine-tree jungles; a hand-book for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . SUFFOi K ENC. A ELECTR, CO, BOSTO SHOT IN THE R. c^ A. JUNGLE. 55 W^Here tHe Big Game Hide. OF Maines total land surface, nearly 23,000 square miles are still a forest wilderness, and by far the larger part of thisgreat jungle-land is in the Bangor & Aroostook means that the man who comes to hunt big gamein the Pine Tree State can ride in the height of railroad comfortand luxury to the very runways and yards of the great forestdenizens. He will find plenty of game within sound of the locomo-tive whistle ; or he can get into his guides canoe, slip up along any ofthe hundreds of devious waterways that penetrate the very heart of theforest primeval, and meet the monarch moose and fleet Virginian deerin jungle fastnesses that have as yet scarcely begun to know thesound of the rifle and the ping of the deadly Typical Maine Camp Scene. 56 Big Game Returns. That there is sport here in abundance for the hunter is a fact beyonddispute. Every year sees hundreds of noble moose brought out of theB. & A. region, and the total number of deer transported in a single seasonalways mounts up into the thousands. Think what a mountain of gamethat is, to be taken out of one preserve, far-reaching though its confinesmay be ! One would suppose such a tremendous drain must soondeplete the territory of its big game, but statistics tell another story;they show that, thanks to wise State legislation and protection, the wildforest herds are increasing perceptibly from year to year, and thusafford better and greater inducements to the hunter than ever the past year, moose have been remarkably bold in IMaine. In
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