92 CARIBOU SHOOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



home reader should not consider the time altogether 

 wasted which is given to informing him how the 

 " outers" make themselves fairly comfortable under 

 circumstances too commonly described by the oppro- 

 brious name of hardship. If some be tempted by our 

 description to "try it on/' our work will not have 

 been done in vain. 



-None of our fellow-sportsmen know better than 

 those who have made frequent excursions to distant 

 fields, how much of a task it is to complete the itiner- 

 ary; and especially so when the objective point is 

 thousands of miles away, and in a country about 

 whose history the world at large knows but little, and 

 the United States even less. Many letters of inquiry 

 had to be written, and the difficulty was to find the 

 names and addresses of the proper persons with whom 

 to communicate. Fortunately the author noticed a 

 communication from the pen of Wakeman Holbert- 

 son which appeared in the April number of Harper's 

 Weekly, 1892, which read like a fairy tale, describing 

 a trip to the White Hills in Newfoundland. The 

 Weekly was passed round, read aloud at a smoke, and 

 commented on to the fullest extent; and while the 

 reputation of Mr. Holbertson for " truth and veracity" 

 was not called into question as a special order of busi- 

 ness, the grimaces made by some of the hearers as 



