vni OBITUARIES. 



He was present at the inauguration of the Provincial 

 Association for the Protection of the Inland Fisheries and 

 Game of the Province of Nova Scotia, under the presidency of 

 Capt. Chearnley, at Halifax in March 1853, and was one 

 of the original members. 



The following mention of some of his principal sporting 

 trips during his first three years' sojourn here, will give an 

 idea of his activity- in this respect. In July 1852 he made 

 a twelve-days' salmon fishing trip on the Nepisiquit River, 

 New Brunswick. In the winter x)( 1852-3 he was on an 

 unsuccessful moose-hunt with the veteran guide, Joe Cope, 

 in the neighbourhood of Petite (Walton). On 26-28 Feb. 

 1853, he and a companion again went moose-hunting with 

 that most noted of Indian guides, John Williams, and Francis 

 Paul and his son Joe, at Ship Harbour Big Lake, Halifax 

 County, but saw no moose. They then moved camp, and 

 were from 1st to 3rd March at Fish Lake (now Scraggy Lake) 

 in the Ship Harbour backwoods, and there on 4th March he 

 got his first moose, a fine bull, nearly 7 feet to the shoulder 

 and weighing 1100 or 1200 lbs., and the whole party brought 

 down six moose in one day. In May, 1852 or '53, he was 

 trout fishing at Frederick's Lake, St. Margaret's Bay Road, 

 with the eccentric Charles Frederick; and June found him 

 fishing sea-trout at the head of Musquodoboit Harbour, 

 Halifax County. From 19th Aug. to 10th Sept., 1853, he 

 was on a canoe voyage in New Brunswick, from Bathurst 

 up the Restigouche River, fishing salmon, and down the 

 St. John River to Fredericton. In Sept. of the same year 

 on his return from New Brunswick, he was moose-calling 

 with Indians Christopher Paul and Tom Phillips at Long 

 Lake, Ponhook Lakes, Halifax and Hants Counties, and in 

 Oct. 1854 he and a friend were again moose-hunting at Fish 

 Lake (Scraggy Lake), with guide Joe Paul and another 

 Indian. These trips he fully described in his first book. 



As a result of these various shooting and fishing expedi- 

 tions, and with the knowledge he had gained of our forests, 

 trees, plants, mammals, fish, and of the Micmac and Malecite 

 Indians and their legends, he wrote his first work, "Sporting 

 Adventures in the New World, or Days and Nights of Moose- 

 hunting in the Pine Forests of Acadia," published in two 

 volumes of about three hundred pages each, at London in 

 1855, with two colored illustrations from his own sketches. 



