viu CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 

 A hunter's paradise 



PACES 



A great game country — Kill a thirty-five pointer — The uncertainty of" river-hunting" — 



Reach open country and kill two fine stags — Love-sick stags .... 103-112 



CHAPTER VI 



HUNTING ON THE UPPER GANDER AND RETURN TO GLENWOOD 



Beautiful country — Successful still-hunting — The river becomes difficult — ^Drought pre- 

 vents journey across Newfoundland — A hunter's paradise — Hunting incidents — A 

 great stag at last — Stormy weather — Decide to return — Vagaries of wind — Death of 

 the forty-nine pointer — The bear and the carcase — Bears wreck the cache — Difficulties 

 with the boats — Reach Glenwood — The hotel — The " accommodation " train . 1 13-'37 



CHAPTER Vn 



A VISIT TO THE OUTPORTS OF THE SOUTH COAST 



The fascination of Newfoundland — Sport and geography — Modern fin-whaling — The 

 beauty of Placentia — -St. Lawrence — Doggerel names — Flowers — -Dogs — Sheep — The 

 curse of ownerless dogs — Butterflies — The natives — Their conservatism — Habits — 

 Insanitary surroundings — Modes of life — Cod-fishing — Methods of taking cod — 

 Dangers of the fishing — The Naval Reserve — Its importance in the future . 138-159 



CHAPTER Vni 



MODERN FIN-WHALING AND THE GREAT WHALES 



History of Newfoundland whaling^ — The far-seeing Lord Bacon— The Spanish Basques 

 — The inventions of Svend Foyn — New methods — Immediate success in Europe and 

 Newfoundland — Description of the great whales — The blue whale — Adventure of 

 the Puma — The common rorqual — Chase of the finback — Rudolphi's rorqual — 

 The humpback — Incidents of humpback hunting — A dangerous whale — Occasional 

 visitors 160-183 



CHAPTER IX 



THE CHASE OF THE BLUE WHALE 



The St. Lawrence whale factory — The whaling steamer — I go for a cruise — A rough ex- 

 perience — Bad weather and no whales — Hunting finbacks — Sight blue whales — 

 Details of the chase — A successful shot — The death flurry — ^Methods of raising — 

 Sharks— Dr. Rismuller 184-193 



CHAPTER X 



ACROSS NEWFOUNDLAND 



Intend to cross Newfoundland by canoe — ^John McGaw — Voyage along the south coast 

 — Bale d'Espoir — Mr. Leslie — -W. E. Cormack — The first crossing of Newfoundland 

 — Pack over the mountains to Long Pond — Trees — A dangerous lake — Soulis Ann, 

 Brazil, and Little Burnt Lakes — The skilliilness of the Indian — Sunset on Little 

 Burnt Lake 194-204 



