GRAND ROMAINE AND OLD ROMAINE 



Romaine, or rather an Indian had. I had shot 

 a double-crested cormorant, which fell into a 

 shallow passage between two islands. It was 

 too interesting a specimen to lose and, wading 

 nearly to my neck, I succeeded in recovering 

 him. While I was about it I decided to cross 

 the passage a short distance farther up and 

 pick up a horned lark, that, with the usual 

 hardihood and vigor of this species, had flown 

 some distance after I had shot it before it fell. 

 As I was creeping along a rock on my return, 

 clad only in my binoculars and shotgun, I 

 suddenly came upon an Indian in his canoe. 

 The man paddled by with an imperturbable 

 countenance, although he had probably never 

 seen a white man under such peculiar circum- 

 stances, for, as far as my observation goes, 

 neither white men nor Indians on this coast 

 ever think of bathing in the sea. 

 i Indians were frequently seen cruising about 

 and visiting the islands, shooting the nesting 

 birds and taking the eggs and young. "You 

 can't blame them," said our captain, the game- 

 warden; "they are starving." The winter hunt 

 is growing poorer of late years and the fall in 

 the price of furs since the war began has fur- 

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