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with no luck, and we all agreed that, caribou being so 

 few and far between by the river, we should be well 

 advised to change our ground to the height of land in 

 thedirection of Red Indian Lake. 



Red Indian Lake is a large sheet of water, one of 

 the largest in the island, and at one time its shores 

 used to be visited by great numbers of caribou. Of 

 recent times, however, the extension of the lumber 

 business and Lord Northcliffe's timber works have 

 driven the line of migration further to the west. 



In the previous year Mr. F. C. Selous had travelled 

 in far beyond Red Indian Lake to George IV.'s Pond, 

 a region only once previously visited by a white man, 

 and had told me of the large number of deer which he 

 had seen there. As the crow flies, or, as in Newfound- 

 land one might say, as the wild goose flies, this big, 

 untouched country lay over a hundred miles to the 

 west, but between us and Red Indian Lake spread an 

 immense expanse which, up to that time, had remained 

 almost, if not quite, untried. This was the district 

 that we now made up our minds to travel a decision 

 the more easily arrived at since we were all a little 

 tired of the conditions under which we had hunted of 

 late, the endless watching and waiting, which is so 

 characteristic of September sport in a region of fairly 

 thick woodland. 



Loaded with our small necessaries we set out early 

 and walked steadily all day. As we approached the 

 height of land, the country changed in character and 

 became more and more open. Large marshes spread 

 on every side, only broken by little clumps of timber. 

 Of deer we saw but small sign ; their broad roads were, 

 it is true, cut deep in the face of the marshes, and the 



