108 CAEIBOU SHOOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



Stores, Brooklyn, at 12 M., September 29th." At 

 4:45 P. M. we boarded the train at Lancaster, Pa., 

 with only one incident to mar the pleasant anticipa- 

 tions which we had been nursing for a year and 

 more the one unpleasant thing which occurs on 

 very many occasions just at the critical moment 

 Mr. H. W. Bush, a good hunter and jovial compan- 

 ion, was obliged to remain at home on account of 

 business complications over which he had no control. 



This sudden break left but three in our party the 

 writer, Mr. A. C. Kepler, of Lancaster, and Mr. J. W. 

 Davis, of Burlington, N. J. This not only deprived 

 us of the company of Mr. Bush, but as well his share 

 of the expenses, which amounted to considerable. 



The Burlington contingent met us at the Astor 

 House on Saturday morning, the 29th, as per pre- 

 vious arrangement, and by 10 A. M. we were at the 

 office of Bowring & Archibald, and soon secured our 

 passage and each a draft for $100.00 (at an expense of 

 fifty cents per hundred), as we had already learned 

 that in Newfoundland American money would be 

 subject to a shave of three per cent. In this transac- 

 tion we made a mistake, and others would do well to 

 benefit by our experience. We should have con- 

 verted all our money into drafts from $10.00 up, 

 which would not only have saved us quite a snug 



