X CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XV 



OPEN-GROUND HUNTING ON THE SHOE HILL AND KESOQUIT RIDGES 



PACES 



An open country — " Tufts" — The Kesoquit Hills — Louis John's tilt — Micky John — Herd 

 caribou — Shoe Hill — ^John spies a fine stag — A massive head — The caribou a great 

 fighter — Go to Mount Sylvester^Heavy packs — A thirty-nine pointer — Stalking 

 with the camera — Some successes and many failures — Great deer roads — Mount 

 Sylvester — A splendid view — Abundance of deer — A large hummel — Find a 

 grand stag — Death of the forty-five pointer — A long stalk ends an eventful day — 

 The joys of hunting 278-295 



CHAPTER XVI 



WANDERINGS ABOUT LAKE MAELPEG AND MOUNT SYLVESTER 



Close of the rutting season — Kill two stags — Indian bootmaking — Steve's story of the lost 

 man — Foxes — Abundance of deer — The migration commences — A lucky shot — 

 Packing and canoeing homewards — Discomforts of winter travel — Appreciation of 

 Newfoundland 296-308 



CHAPTER XVII 



THE NEWFOUNDLAND CARIBOU 



The caribou — Local races— Their similarity — The Newfoundland variety — Indian names 

 — The "toler" — Horns — Indian superstition — Large heads — Author's specimens, 

 with measurements — Female horns — Food — A great " trek " — Winter habitat — 

 Migrations — Game laws — Deer not decreasing — Autumnal habits — Fighting — A 

 reckless animal — Fears — Voice — Glands — PlM;ued by flies — Introduction of reindeer 

 to Labrador — Introduction of moose to Newfoundland 309-336 



APPENDIX 

 Outfit — Indian names — Colloquialisms — Game laws 337-34° 



