CHAPTER XI. 



PREPARATIONS FOE THE TRIP. 



Too Many Caribou in Mr. Holbertson's Article Our Friend 

 Goes to New York and Keturns with Pupils Dilated 

 " Eichard Le Buffe, Hall's Bay, Notre Dame Bay, N. F." 

 The Cree Stove as Amended Cooking Untensils, etc., 

 Packed in Stove Baggage Restrictions What We Car- 

 ried The Medicine Chest Guns and Ammunition The 

 Protean Tent. 



ITH so much knowledge of the history and 

 physical features of the island as we have 

 tried to give in the preceding pages, the 

 reader who has followed us thus far is prepared to ac- 

 company us "in the spirit and understanding" as we 

 now pass to the detailed account of our own personal 

 experience in hunting the reindeer among the White 

 Hills of Newfoundland. To the hunter who may fol- 

 low in our footsteps and we hope he will be num- 

 erous the space devoted to 



PREPARATIONS FOR THE TRIP 



May be both interesting and useful ; while the tour- 

 ist will find something of value, and even the stay-at- 



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