NDLAND CARIBOU 



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DEER STALKING ON THE NEWFOUNDLAND BARRENS 



/COUNTLESS lakes and lakelets ; innumerable picturesque 

 V^ salmon streams ; broad stretches of upland moors and 

 marshes roamed over by restless herds of caribou ; a bold and 

 curiously indented seacoast fringed with islands, which are the 

 breeding place of myriads of wild fowl : all these make the island 

 of Newfoundland a happy hunting ground for the sportsman and 

 naturalist. 



He who has once carried his rifle across the interior of the island 

 is never likely to forget the experience. The beauty, wildness and 

 solitude of the country ; the indefinable charm of exploring the in- 

 most recesses of an untrodden wilderness; of wandering unrestrained 

 across dry elevated plains where deer stalking may be pursued in 

 all its fascinating perfection ; the long clear standing shots where 

 often the unbroken level prints the outline of the quarry clearly 

 against the sky : all combine to make still hunting in the natural 

 deer parks of Newfoundland one of the most attractive of sports. 

 Here on these high mountain pastures the caribou appear to be 

 holding their own one of the few instances where the big game 

 of America is not decreasing in numbers, 



