FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB. 65 



" plenty.) I don't believe it. When they (the salmon) reach 

 " the upper waters — the spawning ground — they are sure to rise." 



[This I found was the case, for after we passed the " Forks " 

 of the Tobique where the several branches meet, I caught two or 

 three salmon nearly every day on our way.] 



I skip from 4th to 17th August, as a continuous record is 

 interesting only to the man to whose memory it recalls every 

 incident of every happy and often exciting day ; and go on to 

 " Tuesday 18th Aug., On Nepisiquit. Started after breakfast and 

 " went down to the Forks where we had splendid fishing ; caught in 

 " two hours with tworods five or six dozen trout, none of which were 

 "under 1 lb. some over 4 lbs. Dinedthere; paddled on a few miles 

 " and camped for the night at a place where we got more fine trout. 

 " In the evening I went up a beaver stream opposite with Gabe, 

 "and set some beaver traps, near a dam." 



" Wednesday 19th Aug. — I went out very early with Gabe to 

 " look at the traps. Found a large beaver in my first trap, caught 

 " by a hind toe. In one of the other " traps was a quite little one. 

 " After breakfast we decided to break up and hunt out the dam 

 " before leaving. So we all canoed up, and drained it, and then 

 " set to work on the houses. After a while a beaver bolted out, 

 " I was just going to fire, when I saw it was a young one, so I 

 " called out to Gabe and the others and we pursued it and caught 

 " it in a landing net. Soon after we started another little one 

 " and caught it in the same way alive. We could not start any 

 " more and returned with our two new pets, which we put in an 

 " empty biscuit barrel. It was very rainy in the afternoon so we 

 " remained in the same camp and caught 3 or 4 dozen more trout 

 " many of them over 4 lbs. weight." 



Such was the sort of daily record. I may mention that the 

 two little beaver pets were not only safely conveyed to Govern- 

 ment House, but after a winter there were taken home by the 

 Governor and presented to the Zoological Gardens where I saw 

 them some years after. 



So much for " Camping out " in summer, but to my mind 

 " Camping out " in winter in order to hunt cariboo or moose, and 

 to trap, was far better fun ; though it is tremendously hard 

 work, if you go thoroughly in for it, and share the work with 

 your Indian Hunter, which every true " back-woods " hunter 

 should do. I used by the generosity of Governor Gordon, 

 generally to be able to get three weeks or a month's leave in the 

 middle of winter, and I invariably "went out for the whole 

 time to camp, generally alone with my Indian Hunter, Peter Saul, 

 (and accompanied sometimes by his boy), in order that 1 tnighl learn 

 to track, trap and hunt "like an Indian" as Gabe described it. 

 It must be difficult for any one who has never been in the far 



