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CHAPTER IV. 



NEWFOUNDLAND CARIBOU FROM THE SPORTSMAN'S 



POINT OF VIEW. 



It is probable that this volume will be read more by 

 sportsmen than by naturalists, and those interested in a 

 more general way in the lives of wild animals, therefore a 

 chapter on the Caribou of Newfoundland from the 

 sportsman's point of view may prove of some interest, even 

 though more has been written on these animals as quarry for 

 the hunter than from any other standpoint. 



Perhaps I shall shock some of my friends who believe 

 that, because I have done so much hunting with the camera, 

 I am absolutely against shooting. On the contrary, I am 

 thoroughly in favour of the sport, provided it is done 

 decently, and that it is not made too one-sided. If the 



