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impossible, so that delays may be experienced. This I 

 mention as a caution regarding the food supply. It is 

 decidedly uninteresting to be weatherbound at the wrong 

 end of a lake without sufficient provisions. 



The selection of a camping ground is important or not 

 according to the time of year. In the summer, when on a 

 fishing trip (and I may mention the interesting fact, well 

 known to so many people, that the rivers of the island are 

 wonderfully well stocked with salmon and trout, both sea- 

 trout and residents {S. fojiti?ialis)^ so that the very best of 

 sport is to be had on any of the waters upon payment of 

 a small rod licence), any fairly level place will do, provided it 

 has firewood, and not too many insect pests. In the autumn, 

 however, one should be most careful to select a place 

 sheltered from the north wind. On either the north or west 

 bank of a river there is often to be found sufficient shelter 

 under the fringe of trees, but never choose the east or south 

 bank. I tried it once, when almost as soon as I had put up my 

 tent, a terrific storm from the north broke, and for three days 

 I was pelted with frozen snow, and life was entirely unsatis- 

 factory. The wind blew with such violence that it was 

 impossible to keep a fire going, even though I built a rude 

 screen of boughs to shelter it. A more thoroughly unpleasant 

 three days I have seldom spent, but it taught me a lesson 

 from which I profited during the many subsequent trips. 



The weather, which is so important a condition where 

 camping is concerned, is not quite all that one might wish 

 in Newfoundland ; still, when one becomes used to it and 

 adopts the philosophical attitude, the dull days do not count, 

 and rain is taken somewhat as a matter of course. During 

 the summer, fine weather prevails, as a rule, and very seldom 

 is it too hot, except occasionally during the noon hours, 

 when the sun makes one lazy and disinclined even to fish. 



