200 PEINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



from its elevation will be the first spot left bare. The 

 gunner has a couple of well-trained decoy brant, who 

 collect the wild birds around them, and when he thinks 

 there are enough for a family shot, he gently pulls a little 

 string, fastened to their legs, at which signal they neither 

 flap their wings, nor make any disturbance, but quietly 

 disengage themselves from their companions and swim 

 towards their master. Sometimes ten or twenty brant 

 fall to a couple of barrels. The longer the birds stay in 

 Prince Edward Island the better and fatter they get. In 

 June they are perfectly delicious, and fully equal, in my 

 opinion, to the much vaunted canvass-back. 



