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undertake to describe them. They are very numerous. In some 

 places we saw them, in droves of a thousand together, enjoying the 

 magnificent feeding grounds on the sand and gravel bottoms of the 

 flats, which skirt the coves and inlets everywhere on the shores of 

 the Bay and Strait. They seemed to feel very much at home 

 running round through the innumerable small ice-pans that are 

 generally grounded along the coast of the Strait at ebb tide. There 

 are black ducks, divers, howdens, eider ducks, and ducks of all kinds. 



THE REINDEER. 



I should say that the sportsman could take his choice of at least 

 half a dozen varieties in a single day's hunt, and take more than 

 a man could carry in a short time. We also came across a number 

 of sea pigeon, but they seemed to be a little out of their latitude or 

 season. 



I cannot tell whether the white bear or the deer should- rank 

 first in the estimate of the hunter in the Hudson's Bay region. 

 Possibly the greatest sport may be had in hunting the reindeer or 



