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on deck, and turned into our bunks below, 

 thoroughly tired out. 



So ended our hunting trip in Newfoundland. 

 It was not very successful ; three caribou heads 

 and one bearskin were all the trophies we had to 

 show. We could not congratulate ourselves upon 

 the amount of game killed, but at any rate we did 

 not come back empty-handed, and we had seen 

 something of the country and had enjoyed a very 

 pleasant month in the woods. 



Newfoundland is not much visited by English- 

 men. I know not why, for it is the nearest and 

 most accessible of all their colonies, and it offers 

 a good field for exploration and for sport. The 

 interior of a great part of the island, all the northern 

 part of it in fact, is almost unknown. The variety 

 of game is not great, there are no moose or small 

 deer, and bears are, strange to say, very scarce ; 

 but caribou are plentiful, and the Newfoundland 

 stags are finer by far than any to be found on any 

 portion of the continent of North America. The 

 caribou, or reindeer, are getting scarce, as they are 

 also in every other accessible place. Constant 

 travel across the island interferes with their annual 

 migration from north to south and from south to 

 north. They are no longer to be seen crossing 



