Appearance Of The Musk-ox

The appearance of the musk-ox is so odd and striking that -svhen once seen it is seldom forgotten. You see an oblong mass of tremendously long brown hair, four and a half feet high by six and a half long, supported upon wide hoofs and very short, thick legs, almost hidden by the body hair. There is also a blunt and hairy muzzle, a pair of eyes, a pair of broad, flattened horns that part like a woman's hair and drop far downward before they curve ward- and that is all. The mass of hair is so thick that as the robe lies on the floor il .s about as easy to walk over as a feather bed. Over the loins you wlll find, if you look closely, a broad "saddle-mark" of dirty-vvhite hair, shorter than the rest of the coat. Next to the body is a matted mass of very fine and soft hair, like clean wool, so dense that to snow and fog tt is quite impenetrable. Over this lies a thick coat of very long, straight hair, often twelve Inches in length and sometimes twenty, like the grass rain-coat of a Japanese soldier. Sometimes it actually touches the snow as the animal walks.