Vago —

MOOSE 63

up an enormous shed antler, which with its fellow must
have spanned well over sixty inches in spread.

This particular spot also seemed to be a favourite
camping ground of the Indians during their winter
hunting, as close to our camp was an Indian “cache,”
or storage place for provisions, outfit, etc. It was a
small, square house of notched and joined logs, raised
on tall poles to prevent animals from getting at the
contents, but I noticed that bears had been there and
had scattered things about a good deal.

We also cached some of the provisions which we
should not need, and next morning pushed on again
further eastwards towards the “Valdresflya”’ (a large
mountain plateau in Norway), as I had dubbed the
large barren we had observed from the top of Moose
Mountain.

From the camp Dennis had discovered a moose far
away in the direction of the barrens, so, while the others
with the horses set out direct for our next camping
place, Dennis and I went off to see if the moose carried
big antlers. As we advanced we constantly flushed
great quantities of Willow Grouse, and I had never
seen before such a maze of moose tracks. There were
regular trampled lanes running in all directions.

When we had been marching for about an hour,
Dennis thought we ought to be very close to our quarry
from certain landmarks which he had picked out.
On many previous occasions I had had cause to admire
Dennis’s almost uncanny ability in leading me to some
definite point in the landscape which he had picked out
from afar, possibly from the summit of a mountain ;

though, as every woodsman knows, things look so

different from a distance. So I was not very much