266 SPORT IN NEWFOUNDLAND 



Valley the climate became milder and the 

 autumn tints made the scenery, if possible, 

 more beautiful than when I had passed it 

 before. I had to spend Saturday night in 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia, but got away by the 

 Sunday night express and reached New York 

 early on Tuesday morning. It was still hot 

 and muggy and I was glad to leave on the 

 Deutschland on Saturday, October 8th, arriving 

 in Plymouth early on October 14th. 



The route I had chosen involved great loss 

 of time, the weekly sailing of the Glencoe on the 

 south coast being a great drawback. If one 

 steamer be missed a week is lost. 



I might just as well have gone from Port aux 

 Basques to Belleoram by steamer and returned 

 from Belleroram to Port aux Basques, thus 

 avoiding the tiresome railway journey of 

 twenty-nine hours, but I had to outfit at St. 

 John's and wished also to see the scenery of 

 the island. 



The heads I got did not make up for a some- 

 what expensive trip, but, on the other hand, I 

 had seen a great deal of very beautiful country 

 in fair comfort and enjoyed some excellent 

 trout fishing which I would not have got had I 

 gone in from the railway. I had the Mount 

 Sylvester country all to myself and it was 

 simply bad luck that I saw no good heads. I 



