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both shores of the bay (owing to its narrowness) being 

 within sight, we all enjoyed to the fullest extent the 

 ride down. To add to the pieturesqueness of the 

 scenery, every now and then the sleek heads, with 

 human-like eyes, of the bay seal would bob up, take 

 in the situation and duck, reappearing fifty to a hun- 

 dred and fifty yards away. , 



AT HOTEL LE BUFFE. 



Richard Le Buffe is by birth a French Canadian, 

 and has been a resident of Newfoundland for over 

 tw r enty years; about forty-two years of age, strong, 

 wiry and rather intelligent and untiring in his efforts 

 to anticipate the wants of his employers ; and if the 

 bivouac is crowded he will curl himself up like a dog 

 and sleep beside the fire rather than crowd the mourn- 

 ers. As a still hunter he cannot be excelled ; he un- 

 derstands every trick pertaining to his craft, and in- 

 variably divines the intentions of the leader of a herd 

 of the great deer from their maneuvering, though a 

 mile off. His family consists of a wife and four chil- 

 dren, three little girls and a small boy. The wife is a 

 daughter of "old man Goodyear," who lives in a lit- 

 tle cove several miles up the bay a native New- 

 foundlander, whose whole life lias been spent in seal 

 and cod fishing ; and although nearly seventy years 



