Elsewhere: "The anchorage was in front of a large meadow. I named the river, the River of Cocagne, because I found there so much with which to make good cheer, during the eight days, which bad weather obliged me to remain there. All my people were so [well fed] with game and fish that they wished no more".

Finally, the University Archivist paid attention to the place where moose were described: "It carries great antlers on its head, flat and forked in the form of a hand. Some are seen which have about a fathom of breadth across the top, and which weigh as much as a hundred or a hundred and fifty pounds...Old [moose] are seen which have the hoof of a foot in length or more. All of it is good to eat". Ignoring the unwelcome details of eating moose, she read that moose were so large that the Micmac people used them to make sails for boats that with a favorable wind moved very fast. In the summer, the Micmac knew where moose gathered, and in the winter, they followed them by the marks that moose made when consuming new growth twigs.

Although Denys documented that moose were still plentiful inland, sadly, colonist introduction of muskets contributed to the loss of what was -- at the time of the Music Box Book of Hours -- a plentitude of moose on the Acadian coast.