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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Very well then: the philosopher can tell us all about them before that." Lucien, thus appealed to, began: "There are few animals that have so many names as this. It is called in different districts, or by different authors, elk, round-horned elk, American elk, stag, red deer, grey moose, le biche, wapiti and wewaskish. "You may ask, Why so many names? I shall tell you.
Its name of `grey moose' is a hunter appellation, to distinguish it from the real moose, which the same hunters know as the `black moose. `Round-horned elk' is also a hunter name. `Wewaskish, or `waskesse, is an Indian name for the animal. `Stag' comes from the European deer so called, because this species somewhat resembles the stag; and `red deer' is a name used by the Hudson Bay traders. `Le biche' is another synonyme of French authors.
"Very well then: the philosopher can tell us all about them before that." Lucien, thus appealed to, began: "There are few animals that have so many names as this. It is called in different districts, or by different authors, elk, round-horned elk, American elk, stag, red deer, grey moose, le biche, wapiti, and wewaskish.
It is called 'elk' because it was supposed by the early colonists to be the same as the elk of Europe. Its name of 'grey moose' is a hunter appellation, to distinguish it from the real moose, which the same hunters know as the 'black moose. 'Round-horned elk' is also a hunter name. 'Wewaskish, or 'waskesse, is an Indian name for the animal.
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