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killed nineteen deer and two black bears. He further 

 said that we could reach another lake on the same chain 

 by travelling up Jack's Brook, a stream which flows 

 into the inlet from the north ; also, that by taking this 

 route I should include in my hunting-ground the large 

 sand-ridges which trend inland in that neighbourhood. 

 Were I to go to Labrador again, I should follow a 

 different route, and would, I think, run every chance of 

 reaching the main herd of so-called Barrenland caribou. 

 This herd is on the George River in August, and during 

 that month enters the isolated timber, working out to 

 the coast in the following November. 



Thus the herd spends its year half in the woodlands 

 and half upon the barrens, and for that reason it would 

 seem as if the name Barrenland caribou is a misnomer. 

 The animals are smaller than their Newfoundland 

 collaterals, and carry fine antlers ; one in my posses- 

 sion measures fifty-six inches in length, and another 

 carries a pair of brow-antlers always rare in the caribou 

 and counts forty-five points. These two heads were 

 shot I believe by Eskimo from the herd which reaches 

 the coast in the neighbourhood of Davis Inlet. 



It only remained to follow Broomfield's counsel and 

 try our luck at Jack's Brook, in the hope of finding a 

 stag that had summered upon one of the sandy ridges. 

 According to Sam, some ten or fifteen years earlier a 

 few deer were always to be found on the edges of the 

 high bare upland which stretches from within a mile of 

 his house right into the interior of the peninsula of 

 Labrador. In winter the Broomfields, father and son, 

 make long trapping expeditions by komatik through 

 this country, but for many years it has been left in 

 peace by the Eskimo, who now hunt only in the spring. 



