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Stags. Does. 



Oct. 23 I 2 



24 I 51 



25 2 Ib 



26 4 18 



27 IO 102 



28 12 110 



3 29 18 160 



30 10 97 



Total to date 556 



,,31 ii Did not count. 



Nov. i 10 



2 17 



3 15 



4 8 



5 _JJ 



Total 121 



Speaking roughly, I should say that I saw during the 

 trip at least 1,500 does, as on the last day of October and 

 the first three days of November I sighted them in such 

 numbers that I had to give up the attempt to keep count. 

 I afterwards learned from Jack Wells, who was in the 

 country again late in November, that even towards the 

 end of the month the deer were still there, though they were 

 less numerous. 



Notwithstanding that the general trend of the move- 

 ments of the deer was westerly, there was no very decided, 

 or, rather, direct, progression towards that point, the cari- 

 bou wandering about in small parties of from three to 

 six-and-thirty, which was the largest number I counted 

 together. No doubt in that year the herds " took a shift/' 

 as my men called it, as neither before nor since, within 

 their experience, had there been such an invasion of the 

 Terra Nova country. 



I am tempted here to give a short extract from my 

 diary of the days that followed. 



" Nov. I. Last night a great display of Northern 



