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still eye one another, and one stag will not permit another 

 to approach too closely. They also commence to feed again 

 and to travel. If cold weather in the shape of a heavy 

 snowstorm with the wind in the north-east sets in, the whole 

 stock of deer in the island may be set in motion on a 

 single day. The reader must not, however, imagine that 

 the Newfoundland caribou migrate in a great mass like "la 

 foule " of the Barren-lands. On the contrary they travel 

 singly or in small parties of from two or three individuals 

 to twenty or at the most thirty. They are to be seen 

 running or walking swiftly along their main "fall trails," 

 and are generally led by an old and experienced doe, with 

 the stag or stags bringing up the rear. In this way they 

 will go forty or fifty miles in a single night, and soon reach 

 the desired open ground, where they stop a few days until 

 they are moved on by successive waves of deer. In the late 

 fall it is common to find an area of country swarming with deer 

 one day and deserted the next. Two days afterwards the 

 same ground may be again covered with the animals, and 

 so this southward movement goes on until the end of 

 November, when the whole body of deer that intends to 

 mio-rate have reached their southern limit and their winter 

 quarters. Here they remain until March, when the north- 

 ward migration sets in and they return to their summer 

 homes. 



The Millicete Indian name "Megaleep" (the wanderer) 

 is the most applicable one for the caribou ; for a more 

 fidgety, wandering, and dissatisfied creature does not exist 

 on the face of the globe. It is always thinking that the 

 other place is the best and trying to prove its theories. 

 Its whole character is one of restlessness and curiosity. 

 Except in summer, when it lies down in the woods at 



