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they are fond of feeding upon the wild raspberries and 

 other berries that spring up in its wake. Many- 

 bears are annually killed in the vicinity of Lake 

 Kiskisink and in the valleys of the Peribonca and 

 Ashuapmouchouan rivers. 



The red deer {Cervus virginianus) was until lately 

 unknown in the Labrador peninsula feast of the Ottawa 

 valley, or at all events of the headwaters of the St. 

 Maurice. A few specimens have lately made their 

 appearance north of Quebec. 



Caribou are fairly plentiful in the entire Saguenay 

 and Lake St. John country. They abound upon the 

 preserves of the Triton and Tourilli clubs, and many 

 are shot there every winter. The killing of them is 

 prohibited except from the 1st of October to the 1st 

 of January. On Lac Trois Cariboux, about the 1st 

 of October, 1894, Dr. Eobert M. Lawrence, of Wash- 

 ington and Lexington, Mass., with whom I was camp- 

 ing, had an exciting adventure with a noble buck. 

 When I espied the animal at the first, it had just 

 started out a few hundred yards below our camp to 

 swim across the lake. We had but one rifle between 

 us, and the doctor, who had been hastily summoned, 

 taking my two Indians and canoe, shot across the lake 

 in pursuit of the splendid game. It was a sight such 

 as one does not soon forget. The broad back, large 

 head, and spreading antlers of the caribou appearing 

 above the water ; the picturesque bark canoe in hot 

 pursuit ; the guides paddling as if for dear life, and at 

 the same time vigorously calling the-buck, who paused 

 twice to listen and to turn his head ; the steady gain- 

 in <>• of the canoe upon the graceful form in front that 



