206 HUNTING CAMPS, 



Presently we discovered that Jack Wells and his 

 comrades Bob Saunders and Ned Sweetapple, having 

 arrived the previous night, had set up a tent on the 

 lake edge to await our coming. Moreover, the men 

 had " packed " all our outfit to this spot, as it was close 

 to the wooden wharf from which the steamer owned 

 by the Newfoundland Timber Company starts. Mr. 

 Crowe, the manager, had kindly given us permission to 

 make use of this steamer. Owing, however, to the 

 arrival of a large consignment of logs from Gambo and 

 a consequent pressure of work upon the employes 

 there had been some delay in the preparations and we did 

 not start until eleven o'clock. Just as we untied from 

 the wharf, Reuben Lewis, the chief of the Micmac 

 Indians, appeared and asked us to take him with us as 

 far as the lake head. This we were delighted to do, 

 and on the way had some very interesting talk with 

 him. He was accompanied by his nephew, a lad of ten 

 or twelve, and had come down to Glenwood to sell 

 deer-meat, leaving his sister, Soulis Ann, in a teepee at 

 the upper end of the lake. 



This Reuben Lewis has been for some years the chief 

 of the Newfoundland Micmacs, a branch of the Nova 

 Scotian tribe. He is an intelligent man, but insignifi- 

 cant-looking in person, and has at one time been 

 severely mauled by a bear. His people have parcelled 

 out the Newfoundland interior into hunting-grounds for 

 themselves. Thus, Joe Jeddore hunts Middle Ridge ; 

 Stephen Bernard the Mount Sylvester district ; Reuben 

 Lewis, Kagudek ; and so on. During the spring and 

 summer they are to be found more or less regularly in 

 the Conn River settlement on the south coast. In 

 August they travel up into the burnt timber, and 



