86 HUNTING CAMPS. 



Heads are locally judged by the number of points. The 

 average head seems to carry about twenty-five points ; a 

 proportion of one in every twenty, thirty points ; while 

 one stag in every eighty or a hundred may carry forty 

 points or over. Most of the does grow horns, which 

 they do not drop until April or May. 



I had taken with me to the Labrador a Newfound- 

 land guide named Jack Wells. On our return he, 

 fresh from desolations compared with which his native 

 outport of Glovertown, Alexander Bay, was a populous 

 centre, rejoiced to set foot again in a land where, as he 

 said, " a man might see a body now and again what 

 wasn't a Huskimaw." He left me in St. John's, where 

 I spent one comfortable night between sheets, while he 

 went on to find two other men in Glovertown with 

 whose help it might be possible to " pack " well into the 

 country from the head of George's Pond. 



Jack was afraid that, so late in the season, the best 

 woodsmen would be already engaged, or away trapping, 

 a prediction happily not fulfilled, for he was able to secure 

 his brother Frank a " foxy man," as Jack described him, 

 meaning red-haired and bearded, a man with as genial a 

 temper and as broad a back as ever added to the gaiety 

 of a camp. With Frank he engaged George Arnold, a 

 quiet, religious, hard-working individual of fifty or so, 

 to whom I took a great liking. 



While Jack was thus making up the strength of the 

 party in Glovertown I bought the few necessaries of 

 which we were short, and also my licence, to which the 

 Newfoundland Government, in most kind recognition 

 of my recent attempt to open up the Labrador as a 

 sporting-field, added the right to kill some extra stags. 

 Then, in the afternoon, my friend Judge Prowse, who 



