2i 4 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



It was difficult, for want of ice, to approach 

 in our ice-boats the few seen ; nor did they 

 come to Berry's Well, so that the days passed 

 by without producing very satisfactory 

 results. Yet we were encouraged by the 

 knowledge that brants were behind, and might 

 be expected in large bodies any day. We 

 were living like fighting-cocks on the fat 

 of the land: oysters, clams, cohawks (I am 

 doubtful if that is right), razor-fish, blue- 

 wings, roast beef, baked beans, filling in the 

 gaps by reading, smoking, yarning, and playing 

 forty-fives. Of course you do not know what 

 they are. If not, then guess. Each morning 

 the horizon was scanned with the glasses, in 

 the hope that the long looked-for had come at 

 last ; but not they. On the Monday forenoon 

 of the second week a large flock of geese, 

 a couple of hundred at least, was observed 

 feeding on a clan-spit, in a deep cove, half 

 a mile to the east of the island. How to get 

 a shot at these at once became the exciting 

 question. If not disturbed, we felt reasonably 

 sure they would be on the same ground the 

 following tide, so we began to plan an attack 

 upon them accordingly. The most feasible 



