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was in the country again late in November, that even 

 towards the end of the month the deer were still there, 

 though they were less numerous. 



Notwithstanding that the general trend of the move- 

 ments of the deer was westerly, there was no very 

 decided, or, rather, direct, progression towards that 

 point, the caribou wandering about in small parties of 

 from three to six-and-thirty, which was the largest 

 number I counted together. No doubt in that year 

 the herds " took a shift," as my men called it, as neither 

 before nor since, within their experience, had there been 

 such an invasion of the Terra Nova country. 



I am tempted here to give a short extract from my 

 diary of the days that followed. 



" Nov. 1. Last night a great display of Northern 

 Lights. Hunted to-day towards Deer Lake* Narrows, 

 and saw ten stags, two of which had lost one horn, but 

 one of them still retained a stump which was about four 

 inches long. The morning was sunny, but in the after- 

 noon, just as we were spying some deer, a mist came 

 driving up before the southerly wind. I had my glass 

 at the time on a one-horned fellow not many points, 

 but a very large and heavy stag. He vanished into the 

 mist. During the remainder of the day it was too 

 thick to see much. 



" Nov. 2. Went round crossing Deer Lake Brook 

 and up on a high marshy barren, which seemed to 

 stretch for miles to the north, full of black morass. 

 Snow and sleet driving before a heavy wind. Saw 

 many does and seventeen stags, none particularly fine. 

 The other side of Deer Lake the country seems to be all 



* Mr. J. G. Millais was the first sportsman to visit this lake, which 

 has since been named after him. 



