THE CARIBOU. 89 



The reckless slaughter of Caribou for sport only the car- 

 casses being left to rot on the ground has compelled the 

 Government of Newfoundland to enact stringent laws for 

 their protection; but it is still a grand country for the true 

 sportsman, as he is certain to find game in abundance in the 

 immediate vicinity of the countless lakes and streams, 

 which enable him to transport the trophies of the chase to 

 salt-w r ater navigation without the fatigue of backing it for 

 miles, ankle-deep in soggy moss. 



The following exciting sporting incidents are jotted down 

 after a bivouac chat with one of Canada's crack shots 

 with a riiie, at either running or living game. Few per- 

 sons, outside of the family circle, have any knowledge 

 of the skill and experience, as a sportsman, of Mr. Fred- 

 eric Newton Gisborne, F. R. T. C., Canada's widely known 

 engineer and electrician an experience gained in the 

 swamp glades of Central America, the Kangaroo haunts 

 of Australia, and the barrens of Newfoundland and Can- 

 ada. 



A remarkable and unusually ponderous pair of Woodland 

 Caribou-horns, now being remounted by Mr. Henry, taxi- 

 dermist, of Ottawa, happily obtained for the writer the fol- 

 lowing brace of interesting anecdotes connected with their 

 possessor. 



When crossing Newfoundland, in the '5()s, Mr. Gisborne 

 was preparing to camp some fifty miles west of the Bay of 

 Despair, and thirty miles inland from the southern coast. 

 He was accompanied by half a dozen men, among whom was 

 his faithful follower and friend, Joe Paul, a Micmac Indian 

 from Conn River. Paul was one of Nature' s gentlemen, a 

 grand hunter, and an intense admirer of his master's skill 

 with a twenty -inch muzzle-loading rifle, of 44 caliber. Joe's 

 keenness of sight was proverbial, being almost equal in 

 power to that of an ordinary field-glass. 



"Me see one, two, three, four Caribou! " exclaimed Joe, 

 gently. "Come this way;" and the binocular confirmed his 

 statement. 



