io8 HUNTING CAMPS. 



Lights. Hunted to-day towards Deer Lake * Narrows, 

 and saw ten stags, two of which had lost one horn, but 

 one of them still retained a stump which was about four 

 inches long. The morning was sunny, but in the after- 

 noon, just as we were spying some deer, a mist came driv- 

 ing up before the southerly wind. I had my glass at the 

 time on a one-horned fellow not many points, but a very 

 large and heavy stag. He vanished into the mist. Dur- 

 ing the remainder of the day it was too thick to see much. 



" Nov. 2. Went round crossing Deer Lake Brook and 

 up on a high marshy barren, which seemed to stretch for 

 miles to the north, full of black morass. Snow and sleet 

 driving before a heavy wind. Saw many does and seven- 

 teen stags, none particularly fine. The other side of Deer 

 Lake the country seems to be all upland marshes and 

 woods, that is before you come up on to the ' big country ' 

 that lies beyond it. At this time of year the stags seem 

 to prefer the hard ground, the rocky, mossy barrens which 

 Wells calls ' sandy ridges/ I do not therefore think the 

 other side of the lake would be very good ground at this 

 time of year. 



" We then visited the barrens north of our camp ; after 

 a long hunt, saw a stag with curiously deformed antlers, 

 no bays, but, as it appeared, two separate horns growing 

 like a V almost from the coronet. While we were watch- 

 ing him a doe suddenly dashed into sight, followed by a stag 

 with what looked like a head full of points. I thought him 

 very good, and killed him as he galloped by at about one 

 hundred yards. Thirty points only, but a very pretty 

 head. 



" Nov. 3. Hunted towards John's Pond, and walked 

 about twenty-five miles. Saw fifteen stags and the largest 

 number of does I have yet seen in any one day. I think 



* Mr. J. G. Millais was the first sportsman to visit this lake, which has 

 since been named after him. 



