80 HUNTING CAMPS. 



have been so thinned out as to make an expedition in pur- 

 suit of them hardly worth the time, trouble, and expense 

 it would entail. 



With regard to the Barrenground caribou the case is 

 different. I was told that in some years the herds fail to 

 make their usual November migration to the coast, and in 

 other years when they do migrate they appear in dimin- 

 ished numbers. Also they do not each season visit the same 

 spots on the coast, but come out to the salt water at points 

 far distant from each other ; for instance, Sam Broom- 

 field has shot but few deer lately, though formerly they 

 showed in great numbers at Jack Lane's Bay. 



On the other hand, Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard writes that 

 in 1906 she witnessed the migration near the head- waters 

 of the George River, but at a date, August 8th, when the 

 horns were still in velvet. 



For the hunter who wishes to find these caribou only 

 two courses seem to be possible. The one is to winter 

 in the Labrador and spend the late autumn on the hills 

 and barrens behind Davis Inlet, Hopedale, or Makkovik ; 

 the other would be to make arrangements to arrive in 

 Labrador in the early summer at the first break-up of 

 the ice and to undertake an extended canoe and packing 

 journey up Hamilton Inlet, Grand Lake to Lake Michi- 

 makau, and Michimakats. Provisions must be carried 

 for every day spent in the country, as, except for fish 

 and birds, the region to be traversed is practically game- 

 less. On the upper waters of the George River the hunter 

 would be as likely to find the deer as anywhere, but, since 

 the migrations are of so arbitrary a nature, this would by 

 no means be a certainty, though single stags might be seen. 



Since writing the above I have learned that vast forest 

 fires have altered the line of migration, and the trend is 

 now much further inland than before. 



