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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-1-14, Page 7P1,A'YtiN TAG NM T11, A 1110081i„ V'isoount Kilfoyle hada Lively Etperielioo 1Ie Loargleci Soma-W.1m About M intii g: in Canada—.L l+nr. Coat 8e1t0r titan a ,toile —Next Tinrebo Will Tillie a Gnlde•• A moose dear when wounded is a danger- ous enemy. This conclusion was arrived at. by Viscount Kilfoylo, after a brief but very exciting interview with one of those lordly animals Wpo roam the Canadian forest. The Lsootust was young. The elder Viscount, 's father, died and left this young man a tle, a largo rent roll, and a seat in the ritish House of Lords. The young Vis - un t, however did not care very much for latter just yet. He was only twenty ears of age when be dropped into his pos- eeeions, and at twenty not many youngsters specially if they have plenty of money and nothing to do, care much for anything but heir own enjoyment. The young Lord Kilfoyle had made up his incl to see as much of tl-e world as he could and as early as possible. With this object n view he engaged a tutor to look atter hint an Oxford graduate, the Rev, William White. The tutor was not much in advance of the Viscount in years, and certainly not n worldly experience but, according to cus- om, he was the proper person to accompany young lord in his travels. So with bright nticipations as to what they should see nd hear in Ar ibrica. they sailed for New - 'mgt. t was midwintL;rfit. the year 1887, when reached Ottawa. The terrible cold of a anadian Winter was quiet a new thing to is lordship; but he developed an idea of oiug into the wilderness and killing some ill animal or animals, and Ottawa was a ood place for obtaining the necessary in - motion as to how he should set about it. 'hen ho heard that moose doer were plenti- .sl fifty miles to the north, he made up his -and that moose was just the thing lie ad Dome to America to kill, and according - the lord and the tutor equipped` them- Lvos for the expedition. Moccasins and ow -shoes. for mitts, Bullard rifles and amunition, and outer necessary adjuncts ere forthwith procured and the hunting rty sot out. Philanthropic persons suggested to the rdly fledgling that a guide—oneexperienc- in wood-craft—should be engaged to event a calamity, but my lord of Kilfoyle nted all the honor to himself of KILLING A MOOSE. If a practical hunter accompanied him, he planted, it would take the appetite away ons the adventure. Ho wanted to slay a nose, perhaps many of them, but he want - to do it alone and unaided. The moose, as those well acquainted with o animal know, herd together during the ere weather of Winter and pick out for anselves a piece of the very green woods. is piece of woods may be twenty miles in cutnference or it may he only five, h oiling to the number herding toeetlser. t the Place where they herd must be well oded with green pine or they will not de there. They feed on the green boughs in going about they make innumerable hways running in all directions and cros- g each other at all kinds of angles. This hat is called a moose " yard." was a bright and crispy morning in tho th of February that the Viscount and tutor, Mr. White, arrived at one of e"yards." Tho habitant, Joan Bap- Cayer, who drove them in his '• jump - sleigh, gave the young inert some useful s. He told thorn to stick together and ery careful. to make mbrka as they went g the "petite so that they would bo to return. "-No explainsd`to them that is the Teri easeiost thing in the world et lost in following up these paths wore so innumerable and crossed each in ao many different directions that the utmost; caro was taken they .i he iu danger of wandering for days re being able to regain the point they Lod from. Thefilan that practical hunt - adopted in a moose " yard" was to leis and there as they azo (chip) a tree I y along, but the "blaze" should be sed on the side of the tree in the direo- in which they went, so as to avoid con - ion. .As a last word he told them that ooso would fight like a lion. ly lord of Iiilfoyle and his tutor listened y patiently, but their attention was on ~• prospective game and not on the words the habitant. After leaving directions Jean to meet them at sundown at tno ice where they disembarked, they entered o " yards " with high hopes and rifles ady. This particular yard was about ten les in circumference, SUREOUNDED EY DENSE WOODS, e only avenue to civilization being by the ugh road over which they journeyed in a habitant's sleigh. The Er glishmen ere used to sport in their native land, but lking through a thick wood and on a rrow path which had been beaten hard by o trotting of the moose over it, in quest animals they absolutely knew nothing of, s a novel experience. is they went forward over one of the paths o tutor would occasionally break down a ig as' a means of future guidance. But ter au hour's tramping, with no game in ;ht or hearing, a halt was called, and the scouut and his companion agreed to div - but to pursue parallel paths. Moose ohs, however, are very deceiving. They ersect each other so frequently that even e closest observer is liable to be led astray. e Viscount and Mr. White walked along different paths, each satisfied within him - f that the pats he was following up was actly parallel, with that of his companion. to paths, hex -ar, although seeming par - el, diverged at each stop, sq that after an nt s steady walking, while each thought was within hail of the other, the fact was ghat nearly. a mile of territory divided them. y' he agreement before parting company was, that tvhoover fired the first shot, the other was to immediately join his companion. It ls'very easy to make an appointment of that kind, but in a moose "yard" it is a very dif- ficult thing to keep it, as the tutor found when he essayed to reach the nobleman, • fur the Viscount was the first to espy game and fire the first shot. It was about an hour after leaving the tutor that my lord of Kilfoyle saw among the evergreens a mammoth moose quietly r. browsing at the young trees. The English- man's eye glittered and his heart bounded with joy. Here at last was one of the giant animals iso so eagerly sought. A hundred yards or so separated them, and in an instant the Viscount raised his rifle and fired. Just at the moment when the hammer descended on the cartridge the animal moved, and, instead of the bullet striking the body for which it was aimed, it hit him on the hind legw When tiett bullet struck, the moose sprang into the air with a roar of pain, and then gazing around to see whence came the mis- sile lie saw the Englishman. The pain of the wound threw the beast into a fury, and with a bellow of rage, he came - IIOUInnaiNO THROUGH TUIE-$NOW, by this action of the moose. Hum taugiaitt Gtr suppose thaw *h i} a•deer "was shob itt ire. either should drop or else run away. This animal.dldneither,. He was coining at his enemy:with a fierce bellow and fiery: eyes, the foam flying from his protruding tongue. The sight'of the animal, lashed to fury by, the agony of the wound, was appalling, but t e young Englishman was nervy, and he had -confidence in his aim and in his rifle. With rapid speed the deer, advanced. When withintwenty yards the Viscount raised Isis rifle again, assd,taking careful aim for a spot between the blazing eyes, the rifle cracked: , Whether the bullet went wide -of the mark, or whether it struck the frontal bone and glanced off, the Viscount never knew. But this he did know, that before he could fire again the animal was upon him. - As the moose born down upon the English - map. the latter sprang behind a tree and os caped a blow from the head of the animal that had power enough in it to kill the whole House of Lords. As the Englishman sprang aside from the descending horns and let the tree stand the shock, ho unfortunate- ly dropped his rifle, which at once sank out of sight in the deep snow. Then began et series of dodging movements, whioh developed an amount of agility that surprised the young fellow;himself. The wounded moose would charge at his enemy in a way that meant instant death, and the latter would avoid the beast by dodging be- hind the immense pine which served him for a barricade. The young Englishman could see that the brute desired to TRAMPLE EIAt TO DEATI( beneath its sharp hoofs, and he knew that the only escape left to him was to keep a sharp eye on the animal and a ready leg, so that when ho charged he could place the tree between them. Once during a pause in the brute's movements Ise thought of climb- ing up the tree, but a look at its immense trunk showed him that that was out of the question, for the pine was without branches for over fifty feet from the ground ; besides, its girth was more than he could embrace. There was nothing for him to do but dodge around the tree until the tutor, attracted by the report of tho shooting, would come .on the scene, shoot the moose, and relieve him. If ho could only avoid the brute then for a little while, all would be well. With that hope in his heart he felt, equal to the emergency. The moose, after each successive charge, would retire ten or fifteen feet, pause for a second or two, and then, with a bellow that made the branches quiv- er, boar down upon his foo. Twenty min- utes of this perilous dodging began to tell upon the Viscount. IIe felt himself grow- ing exhausted, while the mad moose seemed to be growing madder. What was to be done? The tutor had evidently wandered too far away to hear the report, or else something had befallen hira. if he could only burrow in the snow out of sight, but that was impossible, for the snow was bare- ly three feet deep on the level. Then during one of the pauses that the ter s moose took to h w'ud aplan of escape a came to him. gather he no take off his fur coat and when the moose bore down on him, throw the coat over the brute's horns and then run for his life. The thought gage him fresh onery. In an instant the garment was off and in his hands, and when the anima again advanced, with an adroit swing the goat was thrown over the horns and the Viscount tore away down the path with the speed of a rocket. The sudden turn of the affairs bewildered the animal. He shook his head in fury- and rage, but tate coat still clung to the prongs, partially blinding him. Again and again he endeavored to shako the garment off, REVENTY..EI 1#0: ff •ZEB,O,—, ' R Tire E4c48 of Intensely CUM Weaker 01 x *;. t1e:411•etit * gi alt, It wa' in the ,.�A,,>cctie regions says„T'reder,. rick 8ehwatka, the Arotio traveller, not fat. from Burk's (xreat Fish River, when eon.. ducting a homeward sledge journey to Hudson Bay, its the depth of an Arctic win- ter, that an intense cold set in just before Christmas, the thermometer sinking dwwn to 65 and 66 degrees below zero, and never getting above 60 below., We were having a very hard time with ,our sledging along. the river, our camps at night almost int sight of`thoseive had left in .the morning, so close were they together and so slowly did we labor along. Reindeer on which we were relying for our daily supply of food were not found near the river, but some. being seen some ten or fitteen miles back from it, I determined to leave the rivert'and strike•, straight across the country for Hudson's Ba We had been gone only three or four days, and as we ascended the higher levels the thermometer commenced lowering, and on the•3d of January reached 71degrees below zero, the coldest we experienced in our sledge journey of nearly a year in length, and the coldest, I believe, ever encountered by white men traveling out of doors; for,that day we moved our camp fully twelve miles. The day was not at all unpleasant either, I must say, until along toward night, when a slight breeze sprang up. It was the merest kind of a zephyr, and would hardly have ,stirred the leaves on a tree at home, but, slight as it was, it cut to the bone every part of the body exposed to it. This, for- tunately, was only the face from the eye- brows to the chin. We turned our backs to it as much as possible, and especially after we had reached camp and wore at work making our snow houses and digging through the thick ice for water. After all, it is not so much the intensity of the cold as expressed in degrees on the thermometer that determines the unpleas= antness of an arctic winter as is the force and direction of wind, 'for I have found it far pleasanter with the thermometer at even 70 degrees below zero, with little or no wind blowing, than to face a rather still breeze whoa the little indicator showed even 30 degrees warmer temperature. Even a white man acclimated to Arctic weather and face- ing a strong wind at 20 or 30 degrees below zero is almost sure to freeze nose and cheeks, and the thermometer does not have to go many degrees lower to induce the Eskimos themselves to keep within their snug snow houses under the same circumstances unless absolute need of food forces them outside. It is one of the consoling things about Arctic weather that the intensely low tem- peratures are almost always accompauied by calms, or if there is a breeze it is a very Iightone. With the exception of a very few quiet days during the warmest summer weather of the polar summer these clear, quiet, cold ones of the Arctic winter are about the only times when the wind is not blowing with great vigor from some point of the compass. Of course there were a few exceptions to this general rule of quiet weather with extreme cold, and when they had to be en- dured they were simply terrible. Early one morning the thermometer showed us it was 68 degrees below zero, but as it was calm wo paid no attention to it but harnessed our dogs and loaded our sledges for the day's journey, which was to bo an exceedingly short one to a place where the Eskimos thought they could get food for ourselves and dog. We were just ready for the start when a sharp wind sprang up, and it felt like a score of razors cutting the face. Had the wind arisen a little sooner wewould not have thought of starting, but as wo were all ready and the distance short we concluded to go ahead rather than unload and go back into the old. camp. We kept the dogs at a good round trot and ran alongside of the sledges the whole distance ; and when we reached the snow house of some Rimrepetro Eskimo it was as welcome a refuge as if it had been a first-class hotel. When wo reached the end of our journey I again looked at the thermometer and found it indicated 55 degrees below zero— that is, it had grown 13 degrees warmer during the timo we were out, although. it seemed to us it nmst be at least 30 degrees colder. I told the Eskimos who had been with us that it was much colder, as shown by the instrument, before we started than it was when the wind was at its highest, but from their incredulous glances at each other they wondered how we could be duped by such ideas directly against our common sense and personal observation. They might believe our statements that the world was round and turned over every day, with- out the polar bears sliding off the slippery icebergs when it was upside down, simply because the white man had told them so, but nothing would persuade them that when they felt perfectly comfortable and warm loading the sledge it was colder than when their arms and legs were frozen and their noses "nipped"by the frost. I tried to explain to them the effect of the wind, but they said they had known the wind to Vow thein off their feet in summer and not freeze them a particle. They said they knew it seemed colder when the wind blew, but that was because it actually was colder, and here they stood firm in the belief that we were wrong. When the thermometer was at 71 degrees below, the cloudless sky in the vicinity of the sun hanging low in the southern horizon assumed a dull leaden hue, tinged with a brinwosh red, looking something like the skies of cheap chromo lithographs. At night the stars glitter like diamonds, and fairly seem on fire with their unusual brilli- ancy. Should you pour water on the sur- face of the ice it greets you with an a s tonishing crackling noise, and in putting your foot on it turns instantly as white as mar- ble. Sometimes when breathing this extremely cold air my tongue would feel as if it were freezing in my mouth, but I could readily cure this by breathing through my inose for a few minutes. You will naturally asst, " Why not breathe through the nostrils all the time?" as you have so often heard advo- cated. The air, however, is so bitterly cold that it becomes absolutely necessary to breath through the mouth. Also the nose is more liable tofreezewhen breathing through it. These freezings of the nose and cheeks are very common affairs in very low tem- peratures, especially when the wind blows. The Eskimo cure these frost bites by simply taking the warm hand from the reindeer mitten and rubbing the affected spot. They know nothing of rubbing frost bites with snow, and that article could not be used in an Arctic Temperature, where the snow, if it is loose, is like sand, or, if in mass, like granite rock. Another. thing the Eskimo always used was snow to quench the thirst, which most Arctic writers have condemned as hurtful. My Eskimos used it at all tem- peratures, and I h .ave never seen any bad results frotp its use. Daughter—No, he didn't propose exactly, but ire blew rings of tobacco smoke in the air, so he must have bean thinking of en- gagement rings, or, something of; that sort. The Vinewitr,'6 was rather taken by -surprise BUT wIT.IIOUT AVAIL. Each shako eutaugled it the more. Finding that his efforts were useless he dashedaway on the path, but iu a direction opposite to that taken by the Vise stint. Just then the tutor, after running up one path and down the other without hardly knowing whether he was coming iu the right direction or not, hove in sight, and seeing the moosa flying down the path with the Viscount's coat on his head, came t -s the conclusion that the nobleman was iu the coat and was of course promptly stricken with error at the awful fate of the house of Kilfoyle borne away by a fierce animal to be devoured. What a story the Rev. Mr. White would have to tell to friends iu England—that the lord of Kilfoyle had actually been carried away, and all by is terrible animal in a Canadian wood. With the disappearance of the moose the tutor thought the safer thing to do under the circumstances, was to make for civiliza- tion, and as civilization could not possibly be in the same line that the moose had taken he went the opposite way. After journey- ing along utterly disconsolate, a voice from the branches of a spruce tree startled him. Itwas the Viscount. who, becoming exhaust- ed from his rapid run, sought the shelter of this small tree until he could regain his strength and scattered wits. The joy of the tutor was unbounded. He would be re- lieved from telling of that awful beast that carried his patron away on his horns. Then together they made for the place of meeting with the habitant and returned to Ottawa, where his lordship told his thrilling experi- ence. The fate of the fur coat is unknown. The Governor of the Bahamas. 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