FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 13, 1897. 
port, MasB., and B. F. Shattuck, of West Ne-wton, Maes., 
going in on a limiting trip. When we saw them they were 
undecided whether to go to Sonrdnahunk Lalce or camp 
on Wadleigh Brook, but decided later to choose the latter. 
Under date of Jan. 11 Jock Darling writes regarding their 
movements and also mentions some woods news of inter- 
est. He says: 
"The Burley party went to Wadleigh Brook and 
camped by the old camp near the burnt land. I stopped 
with them one night. I took a big bull moose track 
near the burnt mountain and followed it across the 
brook in sight of their tents. Their party saw several 
moose tracks that day in the eastern part of the burnt 
lands, but no one met with success. That night it snowed 
and the next morning I went back to Trout Brook. The 
Burley party did not get any moose, but got deer and cari- 
bou. I saw ten caribou run across the road in front of me. 
I shot once and my gun refused to work until they were 
out of sight. 
"A large moose was killed near Dudley's camp below 
the lake (Sourdnahunk) a few days after you left, by a 
sport. He went in by way of Norcross, and followed the 
lakes and river up to Dudley's camp, and afterward came 
out by way of Patten. Mr. Dow and wife came out from 
Sourdnahunk with four deer and a moose. Mi-s. Dow 
claimed the moose. Mr. Finch brought out a good moose 
head a few days after you left." 
Mr, Finch, mentioned in Jock's letter, is the lumberman 
at whose camp on Webster Brook we stopped over night 
has the ability to make what lie writes interesting. The 
book will be something in the nature of an autobiography, . 
but its keynote will be the art of woodcraft, and its foun- 
dation the life of the wild woods. 
Roughing It. 
In New York, as I write these lines, the thermometer 
stands at perhaps 12° above zero. Last night it went 
down to 5° above, which is the lowest temperature re- 
corded for the winter. Every one is shivering and ask- 
ing if it is cold enough to suit the other fellow, and no one 
is happy except the coal dealers. The newspapers devote 
columns of space to telling about the cold wave, and har- 
rowing stories are printed of the sufferings of individuals 
exposed to the hyperborean blasts. 
All this sounds well enough for people who live in New- 
York, but 5° above is a long way from freezing the mer- 
cury, and is not very sensational when compared with the 
cold in the Pine Tree State. 
On the 23d of November the thermometer registered 20" 
below zero at Sebois House, in Penobscot county, Maine, 
at 8 A. M. The day before McLain, Sr., had gone from 
his carap on Sourdnahunk Lake down to the dam in his 
canoe, but that night the lake, which is four miles long, 
froze over, and the next morning Mr. Goodwin walked the 
same distance on the ice. Hunters coming down Pemadum- 
cook Lake in canoes were frozen in and had to go ashore 
on the ice, and one of the steamers on that lake was caught 
and icebound in a few hours' time. 
From Nov. 23 to Dec. 5 we had a great deal of zero 
weather. Once at our camp on Wadleigh Brook the ther- 
mometer dropped to 22° below, and on another occasion to 
18° below. The brook is a rapid trout stream, but it froze 
in places to the bottom, and one could walk its whole 
length on the ice. Sometimes the water nmning over 
the top of previously formed ice constructed artificial ice- 
bound channels for itself, and on Thissel Brook we walked 
■ on old ice a foot or more below the surface of the running 
stream. 
Yet despite the cold we suffered no hardship in camp, 
and it was no imcommon thing to see the man who feared 
the cold most before starting come in glowing from a 
tramp in the cold air, and standing in the open front of the 
t^>nt divest himself of the last stitch to put on dry under- 
wear for the night. At-night we put on all our surplus 
clothes to sleep in, reserving something especially warm 
to wrap our head^ in, and nobody ever complained of the 
cold except the men who slept on the end-^. When morn- 
ing came and the rebuilt camp-fire wfirmed things up 
again with its cheerful glow, we would pile out, and sitting 
on the edge of the bed undress for breakfast, thus revers- 
ing the usual order of things. 
It was a happy life and a healthy one; and there is not 
one of tlie party who does not feel physically benefited by 
the experience. 
In all we killed five deer and two caribou. The caribou 
were both bulls and the majority of the deer were bucks. 
Each member of the party individually had secured his 
own game and was satisfied. J. B. Bubkham. 
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it was understood that the rifle needed testing, and Bo 
no blame attaches to anyone else. 
Arrived in the woods, it was found that most of our am- 
munition had gone astray with some lost baggage, and so 
the two .30-30 men bad to share. This left so few rounds 
to the individual that I decided to rely on a comparison 
with the other rifle, which had been carefully sighted at 
various ranges; consequently the error. 
With a bearing on the ranges at which game is killed in 
the woods, it is worth noting that in three out of five cases 
animals were hit and secured, shot with a rifle whose 
range for all practical purposes was limited to 100yds. 
The caribou which I had killed was a large bull, but un- 
fortunately his antlers had already been dropped. 
Apparently he had but just lost them, as the scars on his 
head were fresh. The second caribou remained near the 
first after he had fallen, and at one time I was within 
30yds. of it and could easily have killed it. By the time 
Dr. Wright reached the spot, however, he had gone. 
Moose and Caribou SIg:n. 
On our way back to camp we ran across a number of 
fresh moose tracks, including some very large ones. This 
was the third occasion that day when we had seen fresh 
moose tracks, and all were in or on the edge of green tim- 
ber. One large track had passed near the spot where the 
first buck was cached. 
Soon after striking the trail left by Du Bois and Hoising- 
ton when dragging their game down Wadleigh Brook on 
the snow-covered ice, we noted the tracks of two caribou 
which had come along more recently. These caribou had 
sniffed the depression left by the body of the deer, and 
with singular hardihood followed the trail down the brook. 
For a mile or more as we followed we saw where they had 
treaded its every turning, influenced no doubt by a morbid 
curiosity, but just before camp wasreached they had turned 
aside and gone into the woods. 
Later we learned that another band of caribou, number- 
ing three or four, had crossed the road earlier in the day a 
hundred yards below the camp. There was no question 
then that caribou were present in numbers. 
We left Trout Brook Farm for the outer world the fol- 
lowing day, slipping along at a rapid pace over 6in. of new- 
fallen snow. Though late in the season and time for them 
to be going into winter quarters, the deer were still moving 
about a great deal, and we were never long out of sight of 
fresh tracks. 
Once while going down a hill, with the horses trotting 
for all they were worth to keep ahead of the coasting sled, 
we ran right into a herd of a deer, which scattered in all 
directions. A large doe stood within a few rods of the 
road, in plain sight as we passed, and she waited until 
Brown had pulled up the horses and some of the party 
drawn out their rifles and loaded. Then she wisely con- 
cluded she had seen enough, and made tracks after the 
others. 
At Trout Brook Farm we said good-by to Jock and 
Natey, and also to Du Bois, who stayed behind a few days 
longer in hopes of getting a moose. In company with 
Natey he went over to Sebois Grand Lake, but the lumber- 
ing operations in that neighborhood had temporarily driven 
out all the moose and he came home without accomplish- 
ing his object. It was during this expedition, however, 
that he secured the odd burl that is illustrated. 
A Remarkable Burl. 
This burl grew on a cedar tree near Carry Brook, at the 
upper end of Sebois Grand Lake. It measures about 1ft. 
in diameter, and with the thin section of tree that accom- 
panies it weighs 121bs. Its chief peculiarity consists in its 
form, which resembles a product of the mineral kingdom 
rather than the vegetable, being distinctly crj'stalline. 
There are in all nineteen points clustered in concentric 
circles of six and twelve about a central point, suggesting 
in a general way a quartz crystal. JTl! 
The points themselves seem to be largely composed of 
bark, and a knife can be pushed down a considerable part 
of their thickness without encountering much resistance. 
An interesting characteristic is the parallel ridges running 
around the points, which appear to be annular rings, and 
which would undoubtedly be pronounced such were it not 
for the fact that the annular rings have not heretofore 
been found in the bark of trees. None of the Maine lum- 
bermen had ever seen anything like it, and this remark- 
able burl promises to prove interesting to scientists. 
News. 
Oa our way out met Mr. D. M. Buflej^, of Newbury- 
SOME.SOTTRDNAHTJNK. GAME. 
on our way back from Sourdnahunk Lake. Mr. and'Mrs. 
Dow were camped at Sourdnahunk Lake at the time of 
our visit there, and we bad the pleasure of calling on 
them at their comfortable quarters in Dudley's old camp 
on Caribou Cove. The sportsman mentioned by Jock as 
having killed a large moose was Mr. W. B. Cabot, of 
Brookline, Mass., who, with his friend H. E. Janes, of 
New Rochelle, N. Y., dropped in at theFoRESTANi) Stream 
oflBce one day in the latter part of December. 
Mr. Janes is also a successful moose hunter, and the 
graphic account of his scrap with a Milnocket moose, pub- 
lished in January, 1895, will be remembered by all who 
read it. 
Mr. Cabot went in from Norcross early in December. 
He walked up North Twin and Pemadumcook lakes on 
the ice as far as the Ambejegis Carry to Milnocket, and 
then took the land following the old Sourdnahunk road. 
The first night he stopped with Chas. Hale, who has fitted 
up an old lumber camp near the carrv. The next day he 
walked eighteen miles to Irving Hunt's camp, at the 
mouth of Sourdnahunk Stream, and the third day twelve 
more to Kimball's camp (Dudley & Currins) on the stream 
five miles below the lake. The travelina was good the 
entire distance. Most of his hunting was done from Kim- 
ball's camp, and his moose was killed on one of the foot- 
hills of Katahdin at a considerable elevation. This moose 
was a big fellow, and show^ed fight after being wounded. 
No doubt we shall have the story from Mr. Cabot himself. 
Some Sourdnahunk Game. 
Mr. John Jackman, who is an exceedingly good profes- 
sional photographer, and also express agent at Patten, 
sends me the photograph of game which is reproduced 
herewith. This game — two moose, one caribou and two 
deer — was killed by the McLains in the neighborhood of 
their camp at Sourdnahunk Lake. The moose were killed 
two hours' walk from camp. Three were found in com- 
pany, all bulls. Of the two killed the largest stood Oft. 
4in. to the top of the shoulder, and dressed a good 8001 bs. 
This one had, however, the smaller antlers, the spread 
being but 47in. The other moose had a spread of 55in. by 
Mr. Jackman's measurement, and one palm was 29in, long. 
These moose have already been referred to in a previous 
article. Both were unusually fine specimens; and would 
hardly bear out the statement that Maine moose are de- 
generating. Including the bulls bagged by Mrs. Dow and 
Mr. Cabot, ten moose were killed in the itnmediate neigh- 
borhood of Sourdnahunk Lake during the hunting season 
just past. 
A Book by Jook Darllngr. 
When anyone inquires who is the best posted man on 
game and hunting in the State of Maine, the chances are 
that he will be told Jock Darling. For half a century Jock 
has been hunting and laying up a stock of knowledge con- 
cerning things of interest to all who love the woods that 
would be impossible to duplicate. Now he has determined 
to put down some of these things in a book, and it is safe 
to say that this book will be a valuable contribution to 
sportsmen's literature. It will also be good reading, for 
Jock never talks unless lie has something to tell, and he 
QUEBEC HUNTING LEASES. 
Quebec, February. — Editor ToreAit and Stream: I have 
read with grpat interest your editorial of Jan. SOlast re^oect- 
•ing hunting in the Province of Quebec and the privileges 
which .«traD£reis may acquire therein. 
As FoTiEST AND STREAM stauds in the first rank among 
American sporting; papers and as those who wish lo obtain 
fishing and bunting territories in our country apply to you 
for information, I consider your opinion of great value. I 
therefore take Ibe liberty of cnrrec'^ing a ?nist'cike in your 
article of Jan 30 under the heading of ' Snap Shots." This 
mistake, due perhaps to want of cleamef^sin the explanations 
1 gave you when I had the pleasure of seeing you in New 
York, hears upnn an inaccurate interpretation of our game 
and fishery laws. In that article you say: The non-resident 
license being abolished, etc. 
Tbis statement is exact onlv in part. Persons who, under 
the law permitting the Govf rnment to divide up tbe wild 
lands of our Province into bimting territories, lease a lot of 
20, 60, 100 or 400 square miles, will be complete masters of 
their territory. They will, thiouaheut tbe whole extent of 
the Ints or sections so leased, have the exclusive right of 
hunting, and may invite their friends to go and hunt on their 
lots or sections without having to pay any other yearly sum 
than that exacted from thf jn on the sisining of the lease. 
However, I must add that nnn-residents who have not 
leased a bunting territorv, and who wish to hunt on Crown 
lands not under lease, will have to pay a license as in the 
past, the value of which is not fixed by law, but will he de- 
lerrained by the Lientenant Governor in Council. 
In other words, Mr. Editor, if any person, whether he be 
a resident or a non-resident, leases a hunting territory in our 
Province, he will have the exclusive right to hunt through- 
out tbe duration of his lease He will be at home for all 
hunting purposes, and may invite whomsoever he plea'^es to 
share bis pleasure or his trade, without having to pay any 
other sum than the amrtmt of his rent, and without his 
friends, partners or employees having to obtain a license. 
This applies to fishing as well as to hunting. The same 
laws apply to clubs. AH the members of such an associa- 
tion owning hunting territories, whether they be residents or 
non residents, will have the right to bunt on the club's bunt- 
ing territory without the club or any of its memtiers hav- 
ing to spend any other money than that required for the 
yearly rent. 
Of course, and T take the liberty of repeating it, every non- 
resident who has not leased a territory, and who has no invi- 
tation to hunt on a leased territory, will have to obtain a 
permit, as required by law. 
I hope I have expressed myself with sufficient clearness. 
1 am convinced that American sportsmen will take advan- 
tage of the opportunities offered them by the new game law, 
and will hasten to secure lots and sections so well adapted for 
the pleasure of bunting and for obtaining furs. 
Applications are already coming in from all sides. Sev- 
eral hundreds of miles have already been leased to your fel- 
low countrymen. We would be' happy to see American 
sportsmen participate in the movement. We know and ad- 
mire their aptitudes for hunting and fishing. We know their 
wondo'lul sp rit of enterprise and the jealous care theyexer 
cise in the protection of fish and game. 
Thus, as I said in Boston at the Megantic Club dinner, 
where I had the honor of representing the Minister of Lands, 
Forests and Fisheries, there; are ino morej desirable tenants 
for us than American sportsmen. ^Our pDpulation,ito whose 
