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caribou on the open moors, in full view of the passing 

 trains. Passengers across the country at this season 

 can count hundreds of deer as the engine speeds 

 alone-, and see the whole drama of this novel hunt 

 unfolded before them. The fishermen ambush the un- 

 suspecting creatures and shoot them, and then the 

 paunching, skinning, and cutting up follows in quick 

 order. The meat is then carried into the camps, 

 where the salt is turned out into little gleaming 

 hillocks, and the packing takes place, while great 

 steaks are frizzling before the blazing fires near each 

 birchen 'tilt,' or shelter, and horns and hides, with 

 here and there a carcass, litter the foreground. The 

 scene is one of animation and cannot be matched any- 

 where nowadays."* 



After the caribou have run the gantlet of " this 

 slaughter-zone," they move southward to the forests of 

 the south coast. Here again the settlers shoot great 

 numbers of them for the markets. Mr. McGrath says 

 that these facts will serve to indicate to the alien 

 sportsman what the possibilities of caribou-hunting 

 are in this island. The Newfoundland law prohibits 

 the use of dogs and the trapping of the animals. 

 The sportsman is permitted to take home the antlers, 

 heads, and skins of the deer he may shoot under his 

 license, on making oath that they are not being ex- 

 ported as articles of commerce. 



Dr. T. S. Davis, of Lancaster, Pa., says that during 

 a twenty days' trip on the White Hills, inland from 

 Hall's Bay, his party saw over nine hundred deer by 

 actual count; and the marsh which was the scene of 



* On ling. 



