CONTENTS ix 



CHAPTER XI 



THE MOUNT CORMACK REGION AND HISTORY OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND 



MICMACS 



PAGES 



Round Lake— The first stag — Petroleum springs— Shoal Pond — Decide to visit Mount 

 Cormack — Dead Man's Rapids — Lake Pipestone — Schoolboys again — Abundance of 

 deer — Stags are scarce — A great rarity — Indian "calls" — Cormack incorrectly 

 mapped — Bad weather — Return to Shoal Pond — Differences of temperament — 

 Unscientific doctoring — Joe's melancholia — An excellent hunter — Start into the 

 unknown country — The Matthews boys — The Micmac Indians — Their numbers — 

 Religion— Modes of life — Hunting areas — Deer killed by them — List of the Indian 

 hunters — The chief— The curse of drink- The difficulties of obtaining just laws — 

 Jealousy of the Indians about their trapping-grounds — ^Joe's anger — Dog Lake — 

 We kill some meat 205-227 



CHAPTER XII 



DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE GANDER AND INCIDENTS OF 

 STILL-HUNTING IN THE TIMBER 



The attraction of the unknown — The difficulties of Newfoundland exploration — Start 

 packing towards the east — The source of the Gander discovered — Ascend Partridge- 

 berry Hill — New lakes — Martin's appetite — I kill a stag on the summit of Burnt Hill 

 — Beavers — McGaw's first kill — Beaver dams — Plabits — A shot at dawn — ^Journey 

 down the Gander — We camp for a week — Female caribou with large horns — A 

 long shot — Hunting on the Gander — McGaw gets a good head — My friend leaves 

 for the coast — A poor season for heads — Still-hunting in the timber — The caribou 

 an alert animal in woods — Kill a fine thirty-four pointer — We get " bogged " — Calling 

 a stag — A curious head 228-248 



CHAPTER XIII 



WORK AND SPORT IN THE UPPER REACHES OF THE GANDER AND 



GULL RIVERS 



The lynx in Newfoundland — Abundance of stags — Fine horns — Serpentine Hill — Successful 

 hunting — Tramping the country — The source of the Great and Little Gull Rivers 

 — Nearly drowned — Bad weather — Good-bye to Joe — Difficulties on the line . S49-261 



CHAPTER XIV 



TO MOUNT SYLVESTER WITH THE MICMAC INDIANS 



Theories about the caribou migration — Decide to survey the Long Harbor River and 

 Mount Sylvester country — Sir Robert Bond — Introduction of capercailzie and black 

 grouse to the island — The GUncoe — Belleoram — Philip Ryan — Indians — Steve 

 Bernard — Matty Burke — His adventure in St. Pierre — ^Johnny Benoit — The Long 

 Harbor River—John Hinx — ^John's story of his youth — Willow grouse — Ptarmigan 

 — Wild grasses — Ponies — A difficult river — New lakes — Matty Burke and Johnny 

 Benoit leave for their trapping-grounds — End of canoe journey . . , 262-277 



