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Prehistoric drawing on reindeer horn done by the stoneman probably thousands of 



years before the ancient monuments of Egypt. Taken from "Life History of 



Northern Animals" by E. Thompson Seton. 



CHAPTER I. 



ON THE LIFE AND GENERAL HABITS OF THE CARIBOU OF 



NEWFOUNDLAND. 



Long before the development of man on this earth, there 

 Hved for many years in the more northerly part of the globe 

 an animal which, so far as we know, differed but little from 

 the Reindeer or Caribou of the present day. Indeed, we may 

 say with some certainty that few animals have changed less 

 during the tens of thousands of years that have gone by 

 since the fossil remains which are now found were deposited 

 as permanent records in the oldest Pleistocene deposits. 

 European man in the earliest days knew the reindeer and 

 probably used it in many ways, and he left most remarkable 



