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browsing and have partially recovered their condition. Then 

 they could be liberated. All this would be rather more 

 expensive, but the extra money would not be wasted, and I 

 feel certain that if such methods were adopted moose would 

 be a great success in Newfoundland from every point of 

 view. They do no harm to timber trees, as they live princi- 

 pally on rowan and birch, and in summer on water-lily roots, 

 so that the wood companies could have no objection to them. 

 The few hundreds of pounds which the Government would 

 have to spend would be worth thousands in years to come. 



One important point in connection with the introduction of 

 these animals is that it is necessary that all inhabitants of 

 Newfoundland should know of the experiment, otherwise the 

 animals are certain to be shot. I found in 1906 that the 

 Indians knew nothing of the moose that had been imported, 

 and if they had come across them the deer would have been 

 killed. It is therefore necessary that the Government should 

 inform the chief, Reuben Lewis, that they are anxious to 

 establish the moose, and that the Indians must not touch 

 them. In this case they would not be molested. 



