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will suffer in consequence. Their whole natures are different 

 from those of the Lapps or the Indians, and they may 

 neglect their charges for the excitement of the chase. But 

 that the deer will thrive and breed if properly looked after 

 there is not a shadow of doubt. In Alaska a similar ex- 

 periment has met with great success, and all well-wishers 

 of the poor Labrador " Liveres " will rejoice if this unselfish 

 experiment on the part of Sir William MacGregor and Lord 

 Strathcona turns out well, for it is as yet too soon to 

 criticise it.^ 



In 1905 several moose were imported, but were in such 

 an enfeebled state when they were turned out that it is 

 doubtful if they survived, although various reports of their 

 being seen at points so widely apart as Black River, the 

 Upper H umber, and Bay of Islands, were current in 1906. 

 It is a matter of the highest importance that more of these 

 fine mammals should be introduced annually for a period of 

 five or six years, and that their care should be entrusted to 

 a competent keeper of wild animals both during transport 

 and after arrival. Every one who is acquainted with the 

 nature and habits of wild beasts is aware that during journeys 

 by sea and train most large animals are terribly upset and 

 will not feed, and that to turn them out in a new country 

 immediately on arrival is generally fatal. A stockade of say 

 two hundred yards square should be built somewhere near 

 the railway on a good site, say in the woods on the Gander 

 Lake, where the food of moose is abundant. There they 

 should be tended by their keeper for two or three weeks, 

 and fed with artificial food until they take to the natural 



' As this work goes to press I am informed by Sir William MacGregor that " Dr. 

 Grenfell has ordered three hundred reindeer, and that they will be kept for the first 

 year at Anse Sablon." It is probable that these deer will be looked after by Lapps 

 or Norwegians vvho have spent their lives amongst reindeer. 



