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before we were aware of it, left our dingy high and 

 dry, so we were compelled to wait for the flood tide. 

 The doctor and myself started for a walk towards 

 some high hills in the interior. Hoping to see 

 some big game, I took my rifle with me. Having 

 walked a little over six miles, and being rewarded 

 by finding limestone abounding with fossils, and 

 other geological specimens, I saw four deer, a buck, 

 two does, and a fawn, about three hundred yards 

 down a gentle incline between two hills. Ap- 

 proaching as stealthily as possible, I managed to 

 get within 150 yards, and fired at the buck, my 

 bullet taking effect, though not sufficiently to stop 

 him, and I had to fire more than once before I 

 brought him to the ground, the others making off. 

 Now came the question, what were we to do with 

 it ? The idea that two men, not over fresh, should 

 drag a reindeer weighing 200 lbs. over very rough 

 ground, a distance of more than six miles, was 

 simply absurd ; so we resolved to return to the 

 boat, and bring her round to a bay nearer by half 

 a mile than the place where we had left her, and 

 then the three of us start and carry our prize down. 

 Accordingly, acting on this decision, we cleaned 

 it with our penknives, and dragging it about a 

 quarter of a mile to the summit of a hill, we left it 

 in a conspicuous place and returned to the dingy. 

 To ensure our finding it, I tied my pocket-handker- 

 chief to one of its antlers, which blew out famously 



