Trail and Camp-Fire 



ponds accounts for the scarcity of gramina- 

 ceous ducks and geese. 



The Canada goose is met with in summer 

 on all the northern rivers and larger lakes, and 

 affords exciting sport during the moulting sea- 

 son, when they cannot fly, and are chased in 

 canoes and killed with the paddles. This, to 

 be sure, cannot be called sport in its true 

 sense, but it is great fun, and also provides a 

 change of diet. Along the coasts the Canada 

 goose is met with frequently, and it breeds in 

 large numbers on the outer islands of James 

 Bay. 



The snow goose or wavies, until within a f ew r 

 years back, were killed by tens of thousands 

 on Hudson Bay on their way to and from 

 their breeding grounds in the far north, but 

 the settlement of the northwest appears to 

 have greatly reduced their numbers, so that 

 the Hudson Bay posts on the bay can no 

 longer depend upon salt goose as the principal 

 article of food throughout the year. 



The brant goose is shot in large numbers 

 along the north shore of the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence in spring and autumn, but they are 

 never seen elsewhere in Labrador, being un- 

 known to the northern Indians. They must 



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