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pected, and but for the fact that they were already pre- 

 paring to leave we should have been forced to move away, 

 which would not have suited our plans, as we had not yet 

 been able to bring up all our outfit and supplies. How- 

 ever, there was the long stretch of country towards John's 

 Pond and on the south side of the lake, that they had not 

 visited, and that would afford us excellent hunting until 

 the men brought up the canoes which would enable us to 

 push forward across the lake. 



In consequence of this meeting with the settlers we 

 could not help being reminded of the somewhat appalling 

 fact that the thirteen men from Gambo possessed the legal 

 right to kill sixty-five deer. In connection with this we 

 recalled the bands of Norwegian hunters, who are each 

 allowed to kill three reindeer, and who club their rights 

 and used to pursue the few surviving herds of the Dovre- 

 fjeld with Krag-Jorgensen repeating rifles, opening fire at 

 immense ranges and firing volley after volley when the deer 

 ran together, and continuing to shoot until the herd had 

 fled out of sight. This state of affairs has, however, re- 

 cently been rectified in Norway by the passing of a law 

 which forbids the use of a repeating rifle against reindeer, 

 and further regulates the bore of the single-cartridge weapon 

 which is permitted. The second part of this law rules out 

 the Krag-Jorgensen and other small-bore rifles. 



Of course I do not for a moment suggest that the Gambo 

 party would, even if they could, have pressed to its limit 

 their privilege of shooting sixty-five caribou among them ; 

 the consideration alone of being so far from the railroad 

 would have prevented this, as it would have been impossible 

 to handle such an amount of meat without some means 

 of transit other than men's backs. But, seeing the harm 

 that may quite legally be done by such large parties, I 

 think a law prohibiting the hunting of caribou by a com- 

 pany of greater strength than six members may some day 



