CHAPTER n. 



AFTER WOODLAND CAEIBOU 

 IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



I LANDED in Newfoundland early on the morning 

 of October 26tli, 1900, and started at once for 

 Howley Station, where a telegram had informed 

 me I would find my guide and camp equipment 

 awaiting me. The journey by rail from Port- 

 aux-Basques to Howley occupied nine hours, but 

 the time passed quickly, as the country we 

 travelled through was always wild and interest- 

 ing. Much of the ground was covered with 

 dense forests of spruce and juniper, but the 

 individual trees in these wooded tracts looked 

 very small and slight in comparison with the 

 giant timber, amongst whose tall and massive 



