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After Cormack's discovery it was, however, 

 never again seen by a white man untilMr.Howley 

 himself visited it in 1875, since which time, to 

 the best of the latter's knowledge and belief, 

 no one else had ever been there. 



This does not mean that there is any great 

 diflficulty in getting to King George's Lake, but 

 it proves, I think, that the interior of Newfound- 

 land has no attractions for the white inhabitants 

 of the island, all of whom live on the seaboard, 

 and depend for their living almost entirely on 

 the cod fishery, and the annual slaughter of 

 seals on the ice floes off the coast of Labrador. 



In the autumn of 1905 I paid my third visit 

 to Newfoundland in order to see something of 

 the interior of the island, as well as shoot a few 

 caribou. 



The latter ambition, had it been the sole 

 object of my journe}", might have been satisfied 

 easily enough quite close to the railway line 

 which crosses the island, but I love to hunt and 

 study the habits of game whenever possible in 

 wild and little-known districts, and I therefore 

 determined to try and reach the lake which 



