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the damage done to others had been inflicted in 

 previous seasons. 



It is very evident that caribou stags which 

 clean their horns in the country round St. John's 

 Lake must have passed the summer in the 

 neighbourhood. Moreover, both Stroud and 

 Saunders, who have spent all their lives in 

 Newfoundland, hunting, trapping, fishing, and 

 catching young wild geese, both positively 

 assert that a large number of caribou remain 

 in the south of the island all the year round, 

 never crossing the railway line, though they 

 move backwards and forwards through the 

 vast imtrodden solitudes to the south of that 

 point. 



My advice to sportsmen in search of good 

 heads is to try and get into the interior of the 

 country to the south of the railway line, and 

 hunt round after caribou, rather than to camp 

 on the railway line and watch day after day 

 one or more of the migration paths along which 

 these animals move southwards in the autumn ; 

 for most of the stags with fine heads which 

 used to migrate annually to the northern parts 



