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Mrs Barnett and Lieutenant Hobson had been chatting together for some minutes, when, with the exception of two, the wapitis suddenly ceased fighting.

From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by D'Anvers, N.

There are wapitis, which are big stag with thundering great horns, and there are big-horns.

From In the Heart of the Rockies by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Yes, madam,” added Hobson, who had carefully examined the wapitis after the hunter’s remark; “and whether at our hands or from the teeth of wolves, those wapitis will meet death where they now stand.”

From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by D'Anvers, N.

I had an hereditary love of sport, and had read and heard wonderful tales of bison, and grisly bears, and wapitis.

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)

The wapitis were so engrossed in their desperate struggle that they were unconscious of the approach of the hunters; but they would probably not have ceased fighting, had they been aware of it.

From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by D'Anvers, N.