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Identifier: americangameinit00herb (find matches)
Title: American game in its seasons
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, G.E. Woodward (etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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bt, had it beenin his power he would have soon shortened the distance THE CARIBOO. 41 between us—and after what I had so Lately witnessed, Ihad no very great desire (seeing I was not as yet a perfectharlequin on snow-shoes,) to play the same game overagain with my friend on the rock. To put an end to hiswishes and my fears, I presented. My ball took effectdirectly in his brain, and he quietly dropped into thestream, leaving me master of the field. The next mo-ment I could see, through the transparent ice, his glossyhide gliding down the cascade. Amiable reader, thus it was that Meadows slew hisfirst Cariboo; and thus, pray for me, that I may killmine, or ere a year be fiown. If I do, believe me, I willtry to tell you how I did it, as well—better I may nottell you—as Meadows. And so, until next month, fareyou well! II. FEBRUARY. Cervus Alces. NORTHERN WILDERNESS, BEYOND THE OTTAWA; NEWFOUNDLAND TO NEW YORK. Anas Canadensis. NORTH AMERICA, ARCTIC REGIONS, MOUTHS OF THEMISSISSIPPI.
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THE MOOSE DEER. Cervus Alces. This gigantic deer, tlie largest of all the deer tribe, andwliicli is distingnislied from all others not only by themagnificence of its dimensions, but by the fact that it isthe only one of the genus which is uncouth in its form,ungraceful in its attitudes, and awkward and ungainlyin its action and gait, is identical in every respect withthe Elk of Europe, no distinction being discernible onthe closest examination. It must, however, on no ac-count be confounded w^itli the great Wapiti Deer, orAmerican Elk, Cervus Ccmandensis^ as it is in everyrespect difierent and distinct. The Moose-deer, whichderives its name in the vernacular from its appellationin the Algonquin tougue, onusu^ is entirely a JSTorthern,and more especially a North-Eastern animal, being mostabundant in the British Provinces of !Nova Scotia andNew Brunswick, in Maine, the northern part of NewHampshire, and the Adirondack Highlands of the stateof New York, beyond which to the westward it is

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