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man, however, did not see the matter in the same light, and 

 so the one-horned stag was once again spared. From 

 Saunders' description of its single antler I have little doubt 

 that it was the same animal which I saw in 1903 and 1904. 



This incident is interesting from one point of view, as it 

 goes some way towards proving that the caribou migrates 

 in more or less the same direction every year and returns 

 again and again to the same autumn haunts. A further 

 proof is afforded by the fact that the track of an immense 

 caribou has been seen intermittently for several seasons near, 

 I believe, Lake Mollygojack, or at any rate in that district 

 of the island. These tracks are so remarkable that they 

 have been photographed. 



The size of a track does not, however, bear any relation 

 to the size of the antlers of the stag that makes it, a fact 

 brought prominently and disagreeably to my notice on the 

 next day when, early in the morning, we struck the tracks 

 of a band of some eight or ten caribou, amongst them a stag 

 which gave us a splendid day. We found the trail quite 

 fresh in the snow, and in due time saw the stag himself 

 lying down among some boulders. A number of does kept 

 such good watch, however, that it was late in the afternoon 

 before I got within range, when I shot the stag through the 

 neck. The head was a very disappointing one of twenty- 

 five points, although the animal himself was perhaps the 

 heaviest I have ever seen. 



The weather was now turning bitterly cold, but at last 

 the wearisome rain had ceased and been succeeded by a 

 hard frost which continued day and night. On the morn- 

 ing of the loth I fired a long shot at a stag as he galloped 

 along a ridge, and missed him just as he disappeared into a 

 belt of pine. Running round this, I was in time to see him 

 emerge not more than fifty yards away, but then I saw that 

 his head was much lighter than I had thought, so I did not 

 kill him, which I could easily have done. During the re- 



