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desired, "follow your leader and fear no danger." 

 Take the Silvia at New York direct for Pilley's Is- 

 land. Have your mail matter directed in care of 

 Richard Le Buffe, to Hall's Bay P. O., Wolf Cove, 

 Notre Dame Bay, N. F., and Mrs. Brown, the affable 

 postmistress, and her daughters will as opportunity 

 offers send them to Mr. Le Buffe's ranch, where they 

 can be called for by the carriers as they have occasion 

 to return to the cache at the head of West Pond. Ar- 

 rangements can also be made with Mr. Herbert, the 

 gentlemanly postmaster at Pilley's, to send any im- 

 portant telegrams to the camp on the Big Marsh. 

 The telegraph office for this section is not at Pilley's, 

 but a few miles further north, at Little Bay Mine, 

 and ten words cost $1.75 to Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. 

 Tuesday, November 6th. Thermometer 3 1 ; threaten- 

 ing. Le Buffe, Indian Jim and the writer left at an 

 early hour for Wolf Cove, six miles up the bay, in a 

 small rowboat, to secure a sailing yacht to convey us to 

 Pilley's Island ; while Kep and the Kid unpacked the 

 head skins, verified the tags or labels on each and ar- 

 ranged them in, over and about Le Buffe's storehouse, 

 which stood on the edge of the bank fronting the cabin. 

 In this connection it might be well to state that it is im- 

 portant that every specimen should be carefully 

 marked and numbered, and for that purpose the wri- 



