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eastern end of the strait, ^here ^ood board and lodging accommo Jafan mav ba 

 obtained In August the curlew shooting is superb, and other beach birds and 

 wildfowl may be had. Good sea trout fishing in season. The scenery is tte 

 most picturesque in Labrador Board $2 to $4 per week. BeUe Isle with ite UghlS 

 house and perpendicular cl.fis, three hundred feet high, is within easy fSl 

 There are no game animals on Belle Isle. ' 



Fn-teau. This is a light-house station on a headland in the Strait of Belle Isle 

 Good accommodation with the hght keeper. Plenty df wild fowl 



Blanc Sablon. A fishing station near the middle of Belle Isle Strait, located on 

 a landlocked and very picturesque bay. Good board and lodgings. Wild fowl 



Shif Harbar. A fishing station north of Belle Isle. Fine sea trout and birds 

 of Tanous kinds. 



Tub Harbor, Good shooting and plenty of fishing for shore cod. Two or 

 three houses here, but will have to camp out. Located about one hundred and 

 twenty miles north of Belle Isle. There are numerous bird rocks and islands in 

 the vicimty within a radius of fifteen miles that swarm with birds in great variety 



Sandwich Bay. Fishing station, latitude fifty-four degrees nearly. Sea trout 

 and birds. A few caribou on the mainland. Lodgings may be procured 



Flatwater. Esquimaux Bay, latitude fifty-five degrees nearly. Excellent sea 

 trout fishing, and also brook trout, Canada grouse andptarmigan. A few caribou. 



RinUtte. Hudson's Bay Company's post at the head of Esquimaux Bay. 

 Excellent lodging accommodations. Many salmon are taken here in pound nets 

 and the rod fishing at the head of the " Narrows " that connect a large interior lake 

 with the bay a mile and a half from it, is the best in Labrador. Birds and caribou 

 may be shot, the former in great numbers including the eider duck which is 

 found all along the coast ; also ptarmigan and Canada grouse. Good fishing for 

 speckled trout. • 



Norwest River. Hudson's Bay Station, thirty miles up the lake, northward of 

 Rigolette, and about seventy firom the ocean. Excellent lodging accommoda- 

 tions and fine wooded country, with Northern hares, ptarmigan, caribou, and 

 speckled trout. 



MANITOBA. 



Manitoba, bounded on the south by the United States and 

 stretching North, East and West to the North-west Territories, 

 comprises an area of 14,340 square miles. The country is for the 

 most part a prairie, often undulatingand interspersed with poplar, 

 spruce and other forest trees. The inaccessiblity of the country 

 has retarded its rapid settlement, so that here the hunter will find 

 vast tracts of undisturbed territory, where game will be found in 

 all its primitive abundance. The routes are via the Northern Pacific 

 Railroad to Fargo, thence Red River steamers, or via the Dawson 

 or Canadian route from the head of Lake Superior, fifteen hundred 

 miles from Quebec. Winnipeg, the seat of Government, is a thriv- 

 ing town of ten years growth, and within three miles on any side 

 of it, during the spring and fall, the hunter may fill his game bag 

 with pinnated grouse, ruffed grouse, or the white hare, not omit- 

 ting duck, plover, several species of goose and many other water- 

 fowl. The surrounding country, on the west side of the river, is 

 level prairie, occasionally broken by small bluffs of poplar, and every 

 here and there a swamp or muskeg, all of which in the spring are 

 covered with ducks. Following the course of the river to Lake 



