Identifier: thrillingadventu00fros_1 (find matches)
Title: Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indian captivities
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley Lowell, L. P. Crown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ht of a dog, but not of amoose. Five or six Indians, provided with knapsacksand snow-shoes, containing food for about a week, andf all necessary implements for making their ^^campat night, set out in search of a moose yard. Whenthey have discovered one, they collect their dogs andencamp for the night, in order to be ready to com-mence the chase at an early hour, before the sunsoftens the crust upon the snow, which would retardthe dogs and facilitate the escape of the deer. Atdaybreak the dogs are laid on, and the hunters, wear-ing large snow-shoes, follow as closely as possible. Assoon as the dogs approach a moose, they assail himon all sides, and force him to attempt his escape byflight. The deer, however, does not run far, beforethe crust on the snow, through which he breaks atevery step, cuts his legs so severely that the poor ani-mal stands at bay, and endeavours to defend himselfagainst the dogs by striking at them with his fore-feet. The arrival of the hunter within a convenient
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HUNTING THE MOOSE. 241 distance soon terminates the combat, as a ball frombis rifle rarely fails to bring the moose down. I will now close the account of the moose with ananecdote I once heard of a hunter. The hounds had been put into the woods for thepurpose of scenting a deer—a business with whichthey were well acquainted, whilst the hunter placedhimself in a convenient spot, suitably near the deersrun-aifjay^ so as to be able to bring it down at a shot,as it fled at the noise of the dogs from the mountainto the river. The spot he selected to wait in ambushwas on a certain flat, very near the foot of the steephill. This flat was about three-quarters of a mile inlength : at one end was the hill by which our hunterstood; at the other, a steep bank along the edge ofthe river. The hunter had chosen his position well;he had narrowly examined the contents of his rifle,and made sure that the priming was in good order;he had rubbed the edge of the flint on his hat tomake it brighter—all

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