. Bird-nesting in north-west Canada . ld. About four miles south of Lake Manitoba I came across ablutF where moose sign was plentiful. How I longed to see awild specimen of this the greatest of Canadian deer, but inthis I was disappointed. This large animal frequents theshores of Lake Manitoba, and a couple of Toronto gentlemencaught a very young moose liere last season and released itagain after it had been admired. Another party who spent aweek shooting in the neighborhood, last fall, shot eight deer,two bears, a lynx, and a great bag of grouse, and one gentle-man of the party, who had never
. Bird-nesting in north-west Canada . ld. About four miles south of Lake Manitoba I came across ablutF where moose sign was plentiful. How I longed to see awild specimen of this the greatest of Canadian deer, but inthis I was disappointed. This large animal frequents theshores of Lake Manitoba, and a couple of Toronto gentlemencaught a very young moose liere last season and released itagain after it had been admired. Another party who spent aweek shooting in the neighborhood, last fall, shot eight deer,two bears, a lynx, and a great bag of grouse, and one gentle-man of the party, who had never seen a live moose before inhis life, killed two of these animals in one day. The mooseoffers splendid sport to the still-hunter, and the Indians andhalf-breeds are experts at still-hunting. When they perceivea moose bathing on ihe side of a lake they crawl along theground until within range and then seldom fail to drop himon the spot: great care, however, has to be taken, for thecrackinc of a twio- is sufficient to alarm the STILL HUNTING. In North-West Canada. 177 The moose is often killed by calling him to the hunter inthe rutting season by means of a birch-bark horn. In thisway the animal can be called within a few yards of the con-cealed hunter. Another way of killing him is by the aid of abulls-eye lantern during night. The hunter paddles his canoealong the margin of the lake or river, shining his lantern to-wards the shore. In this way any moose or deer along thelake shore are attracted by curiosity to approach the light,and as their forms loom up in front of the hunters canoe alongthe beach they are easily shot down at close quarters. Inwinter the moose is hunted on snow shoes, but thismethod is unsportsmanlike. When the snow is deep the poormoose flounders and sinks up the middle in the snow, whilethe hunters run along the surface in their snow shoes. Themoose is soon tired out and the hunters easily overtake him,killing the helpless creature at close quarters
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