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the interior of Newfoundland in search of 

 caribou. 



In 1905 I paid my third and last visit to 

 Newfoundland, and with the help of a canoe 

 and two good men, penetrated from Red 

 Indian Lake to King George the Fourth's Lake, 

 which I believe had only twice previously been 

 visited by white men ; the last visit having 

 been that of Mr. Howley, the veteran surveyor 

 of Newfoundland, thirty years previously. 



In 1904, and again in 1906, I visited the 

 Yukon Territory of North-western Canada, 

 and made two very successful hunting trips 

 up the MacmiUan River. Up to 1902 this fine 

 stream was absolutely unknoAvn except to a 

 few trappers. During that year, however, a 

 surveying party under the leadership of 

 Mr. R. G. MacConnell was sent from Dawson 

 by the Canadian Geological Survey to explore 

 its course. 



The country, however, lying between the 

 north and the south forks of the MacmiUan 

 and north and south of both those streams 

 still remained entirely unknown and un- 



