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the sununer and early autumn. The last stag 

 I shot, on September 20th, was the only one I 

 saw with a doe. 



In the spring, when the snow begins to 

 melt, the great northward migration takes 

 place, and it is generally supposed, I believe, 

 that all the caribou in Newfoundland cross 

 the railway line and spend the summer on 

 the cool, wind-swept barrens in the northern 

 parts of the island. This I feel sure is a 

 mistake, and I am quite certain that a good 

 many of these animals pass the summer in 

 the country in which I was hunting in 

 September, 1901. 



The evidence in support of this is overwhelm- 

 ing. I found summer tracks in the sandy or 

 muddy ground all along the course of the river 

 I followed, and also round the shores of the 

 lakes. Besides this I came across numerous 

 small spruce and juniper trees which had been 

 battered all to pieces by stags when rubbing 

 the velvet from their horns. The branches of 

 some of these trees had been freshly broken at 

 the end of the summer that was just over, but 



