212 CARIBOU SHOOTING IX NEWFOUNDLAND. 



soil and mine, the elastic spirit shown wherever the 

 smallest opportunity is given for improvement, un- 

 daunted by repeated applications of the English "wet 

 blanket," and last and most promising, the almost 

 universal desire for free institutions. 



Will the deliverance come in the form of annexa- 

 tion to the great American Republic? Such is their 

 hope, and also that of the writer. He may as Avell 

 confess here that a confederation of American states 

 from Greenland over to Behring Straits, and south- 

 ward to Cape Horn, would be none too large for his 

 ideal ; but he cannot hope te see that, since the years 

 of Methuselah are no longer vouchsafed to man. But 

 he is not so sure that he may not hold out long 

 enough to hunt the caribou in the American State of 

 Newfoundland. 



Whether we shall see it or no, let our last word in 

 taking leave of the reader express once more the hope 

 that instead of a European dependency, the twentieth 

 century may early greet our. friends of Newfoundland 

 as in the fullest sense American citizens. 



