40 CAEIBOU SHOOTING IX NEWFOUNDLAND. 



tioii begins. These innocent animals are usually 

 found around a water-hole or along the shore of an 

 ice-field hundreds of them, like soldiers in a row, 

 with their pretty heads extending over the ice anx- 

 iously looking for their mothers. The hunter man- 

 ages to get into a position at a point about sixty yards 



HARP SEAL LESS THAN FOURTEEN DAYS OLD WITH SEALING GUN. 



from one end of the line of heads and opens fire with 

 his great sealing gun ; and as these guns are used in 

 killing reindeer for his winter's meat, a description of 

 them will be given in another chapter. 



As the distance at which this remarkable gun will 

 do effective work in seal hunting has been forever set- 



