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and, although he wiU eat the meat of a deer 

 which he may find lying dead, is said never to 

 kill one of these animals himself. 



Thus the caribou of Newfoundland has but 

 one enemy — man ; and even by man he is not 

 constantly persecuted. In the year 1900 some 

 six thoiisand caribou are believed to have been 

 shot in the whole island^ — some seven hundred 

 by American, British and Newfoundland sports- 

 men during the autumn migration, and the 

 remainder by meat hunters during the winter, 

 at which season the deer coUect in large herds, 

 and often approach the fishing villages on the 

 south coast of the island. Nevertheless, the 

 great bulk of the caribou in Newfoundland — and 

 I believe that there are still enormous numbers 

 of these animals in existence — probably never 

 see a human being, either in their summer 

 haunts to the north of the railway or on their 

 winter feeding grounds to the south. 



On the night of my arrival at Howley I slept 

 at the station, and the following morning, after 

 an early breakfast by lamplight, started with 

 my guide eastwards along the railway in order 



