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hanging clothes, rifle and gun rests, can 

 easily be made, and one day in a permanent 

 camp is sufficient to have all a hunter can 

 want. My men were as good as, if not better 

 than the French Canadians I employed when 

 hunting moose in Canada some nine years 

 before. They introduced me to a bench or 

 camp seat I had never seen before. A suitable 

 tree with outstanding branches is cut down, 

 a short section chosen, on which, on one side 

 at least, there are four branches to form the legs ; 

 this is split in two and an excellent camp stool 

 is the result. 



I found we had eight loads, which meant 

 double journeys as far as Hungry Grove Pond, 

 so I started off Joe and John Denny with two 

 packs, while Steve and I took a light camp up 

 to Mitchell's Point, where the river ran into the 

 head of the Long Harbour and from which I 

 was assured I could get some good sea trout 

 fishing. We had camp pitched and our mid- 

 day meal over by 3 o'clock, so started up the 

 river for the sea trout on which we depended 

 for dinner. It was a rough journey along 

 the river bank or in its bed, and although all 

 the water looked tempting it was 5 o'clock 

 before we reached the pool in which the fish 

 were supposed to be. 



Long Harbour River is one of the biggest 



