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peppered, and charcoaled for preservation, 

 and hung up in the game-house. 



This method of preserving game and keep- 

 ing it sweet for two or three weeks, is much 

 the best I know. I have found them as nice 

 after being shot seventeen days as when first 

 shot. When we awoke, we were surprised to 

 find the whole face of the heavens changed. 

 In the early part it was so calm and bright 

 we feared it was the inevitable weather- 

 breeder, and such it was likely to be, and 

 was, for the cloudless sky had given place to 

 a downcast a threatening one, with the 

 wind blowing heavily from the stormy easterly 

 quarter. This rather pleased us, as we knew 

 it needed such to break up the ice, open the 

 harbours, start the drift-ice, uncover the 

 oyster and clam beds, and thus enlarge 

 the scope of our operations. That night at 

 twelve it was blowing a fierce gale, accom- 

 panied ^with snow, which shortly turned to 

 rain; and then it poured, keeping it up 

 during the day until too late to go to the 

 feeding-grounds. But we received lots of 

 pleasure that day as we watched a channel 

 opening in Fox Harbour on the ebb tide, as 



