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from us. I gave it both barrels, which were laden with 
No. 6 shot, in the head and neck, while my comrade 
raked it along the ribs so effectively that it did not go 
twenty yards ere it fell dead. Having gralloched it, we 
placed it high up against the side of a tree by means of a 
long pole, in order to put it beyond the reach of prowl- 
ing bears, cougars, and wild cats, and then resumed our 
trudging, in quest of more game. Being anxious to see 
the grand old ocean before we left the region, we worked 
towards it, but without meeting anything worth shooting. 
On emerging from the forest, we obtained a magnifi- 
cent view of the ocean, which extended as far as the eye 
could see, like a vast plate of glass; but not an object 
was visible on its tranquil bosom, except a steamer, which 
was so far away that her smoke seemed to come out of 
the clouds, and a white-winged schooner which groped 
along the horizon, and whose spars seemed to touch the 
blue vault above them. After gazing at this placid 
scene for a few minutes, we turned back into the forest 
depths, and travelled parallel with the beach, but though 
we peered intently about us, and scanned the trees close- 
ly, we saw no game. Hawks there were in abundance— 
in fact, the place seemed to swarm with them, for every 
tree contained their rude nests, while the birds themselves 
circled high in the air, and screamed so loudly that they 
drowned the roar of the ocean to such an extent as to 
make it seem far away. We tried to kill some that were 
perched on the summits of the trees, but our shot 
did not, apparently, reach them, for they paid no at- 
tention to it. We then moved on, and soon came to 
an Indian graveyard, in the midst of a dense coppice of 
low firs which were so dwarfed and bent by the ocean 
breezes that they were devoid of foliage on one side, so 
that they had the form of half an expanded umbrella. 
All the corpses were wrapped in old clothing and placed 
in canoes, and each had a set of household utensils or 
