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if not a man of resource, and after a protracted search in his 

 voluminous pockets he produced a screw nail about one inch 

 long, and, with the aid of a tailor's needle straightened in the 

 fire, we drilled a hole in the brittle walnut stock and made a 

 very fair mend of the broken weapon. This was lashed with 

 string until we killed a caribou stag, when a piece of raw 

 hide sewn tightly round the narrow part of the stock made 

 things as firm as ever. However, it gave me a lesson, and 

 I shall not travel again without a spare rifle. 



In the evening we reached the beautiful waterfall of the 

 Terra-Nova, where, after a stiff portage straight up the hill 

 and through the forest, we made camp again near the upper 

 river. The early part of the next day was especially hard 

 on the men. The stream was so swift and rocky that the 

 canoes had to be dragged every inch of the way for the two 

 miles that intervened before Ollygo Lake was reached. I, too, 

 had no little difficulty in making way through the forest, for 

 the deep water on the forest edge often forced me to take to 

 the hillside. 



Along this part of the stream I saw many fritillary butter- 

 flies, and at the entrance of Mollygojack Lake there was a fair 

 number of birds. Belted kingfishers, goosanders, red-breast 

 mergansers, Canada geese, and yellow-shank sandpipers were 

 occasionally moved on the river ; whilst on the lakes of 

 Mollygojack and St. John's I noticed a good many dusky ducks 

 (Anas obscurus), the northern form of our mallard. Grebes, 

 probably Sclavonians, interested me also, great northern divers, 

 buzzards, peregrine falcon, merlin, and for the first time the 

 magnificent bald-headed eagle, or bird of Washington, made 

 Its appearance. In the woods we heard the rattle of and 

 occasionally saw the beautiful golden-winged and three-toed 

 woodpeckers, whilst in camp at night the horned eagle-owl 



