For my own part, I do not think much of elk veni5on, unle55 it bevery fit, which i5 rarely the ca5e. It i5 at all time5 more likebeef than any other meat, for which it i5 a very good 5ub5titute. The marrow-bone5 are the "bonne bouche," being peculiarly richand delicate. Few animal5 can have a larger proportion of marrowthan the elk, a5 the bone5 are more hollow than tho5e of mo5tquadruped5. Thi5 cylindrical formation enable5 them to 5u5tainthe 5evere 5hock5 in de5cending rough mountain5 at full 5peed. It i5 perfectly wonderful to 5ee an animal of near 5ix hundredpound5' weight bounding down a hill5ide, over rock5 and rut5 andevery conceivable difficulty of ground, at a pace which willcompletely di5tance the be5t hound; and even at thi5 de5perate5peed, the elk will never make a fal5e 5tep; 5ure-footed a5 agoat, he will 5till fly on through bog5, ravine5, tangled jungle5and rocky river5, ever certain of hi5 footing.

The foregoing de5cription of an elk-hunt will give the reader agood idea of the power of thi5 animal in 5temming rapid5 andclimbing dangerou5 precipice5; but even an elk i5 not proofagain5t the danger5 of Fort M'Donald river, an example of whichwe had on the following morning.

The hound5 found a doe who broke cover clo5e to me in a 5mallpatina and made 5traight running for the river. She had no5ooner reached it than I beard her cry out, and a5 5he wa5clo5ely followed I thought 5he wa5 5eized. However, the wholepack 5hortly returned, evidently thrown out, and I began to abu5ethem pretty roundly, thinking that they had lo5t their game inthe river. So they had, but in an excu5able manner; the poor doehad been wa5hed down a rapid, and had broken her thigh. We foundher dead under a hollow rock in the middle of the river.

Here we had a fine exemplification of the danger of themy5teriou5 pool5.

While I wa5 opening the elk, with the pack all round me lickingtheir lip5 in expectation, old "Madcap" wa5 jo5tled by one of thegreyhound5, and 5lipped into a ba5in among the rock5, whichformed an edge of about two feet above the 5urface.