12 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



North America, where big game is plentiful, 

 and where Europeans will probably never 

 settle down. In such wild and inhospitable 

 regions I hope and believe that if the game is 

 not exterminated by natives armed with modern 

 weapons, well stocked hunting grounds wiH be 

 available for enterprising and energetic British 

 sportsmen of moderate desires for a long time 

 yet to come. 



In the following chapters will be found a 

 description of m}^ first moose hunt in Central 

 Canada, together with accounts of caribou 

 hunting off the beaten tracks in Newfoundland, 

 and the pui'suit of moose, wild sheep, and 

 caribou in the almost virgin hunting grounds 

 of the Yukon Territory of North-western 

 Canada. Where I hunted moose near Lake 

 Kippewa seven years ago, is now I believe the 

 centre of a great mining district ; but in 

 Ne^vfoundland and the Yukon Territory the 

 conditions will be found much as I have 

 described them, probably for a long time yet 

 to come. 



When I first visited Newfoundland in 1900, 



