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from US. I gave it both barrels, Avhicli were laden with 

 No. G shot, iu the head and neck, while my comrade 

 raked it along the ribs so effectively that it did not go 

 twenty yards ere it fell dead. Having gralloched it, we 

 placed it high up against the side of a tree by means of a 

 long pole, in order to put it beyond the reach of prowl- 

 ing bears, cougars, and wild cats, and then resumed our 

 trudging, in quest of more game. Being anxious to see 

 the grand old ocean before we left the region, we worked 

 towards it, but without meeting anything worth shooting. 

 On emerging from the forest, we obtained a magnifi- 

 cent view of the ocean, which extended as far as the eye 

 could see, like a vast plate of glass; but not an object 

 was visible on its tranquil bosom, except a steamer, whieh 

 was so far away that her smoke seemed to come out of 

 the clouds, and a white-winged schooner which groped 

 along the horizon, and whose spars seemed to touch the 

 blue vault above them. After gazing at this placid 

 scene for a few minutes, we turned back into the forest 

 depths, and travelled parallel with the beach, but though 

 we peered intently about us, and scanned the trees close- 

 ly, we saw no game. Hawks there were in abundance — 

 in fact, the place seemed to swarm with them, for every 

 tree contained their rude nests, while the birds themselves 

 circled high in the air, and screamed so loudly that they 

 drowned the roar of the ocean to such an extent as to 

 make it seem far away. We tried to kill some that were 

 perched on the summits of the trees, but our shot 

 did not, apparently, reach them, for they irdid no at- 

 tention to it. We then moved on, and soon came to 

 an Indian graveyard, in the midst of a dense coppice of 

 low firs which were so dwarfed and bent by the ocean 

 breezes that they were devoid of foliage on one side, so 

 that they had the form of half an expanded umbrella. 

 All the corpses were wrapped in old clothing and placed 

 in canoes, and each had a set of household utensils or 



