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everywhere we have been, and have seen several woon after they had been 
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Killed, but 1 have never seen a ■ssbr’W bear in the Gaspe peninsula. 
probably because of the welllknown fact that bears are perhaps the 
slickest animals in the wwods to keep out'Of man’s way. Deer are 
frequently seen. The Canada Lynx is also more or less abundant. 1 well 
remember pa early morning seme years ago in ascending the Ste. Anne river 
in a canoe,that 4s we farxesncxnaxrsxr rounded a curve we saw a flock 
of ducks swimming aoout in a quite pool ahead. They immediately took 
flight. We then noticed a huge lynx crouching on the shore, evidently 
waiting for the ducks to come within his readh. He slowly raised himself 
and looked aronnd to see what had scared his bradkfast away. He e^i^enbdy— 
wers on the point of asking what business we had in depriving him of his 
Dreakiast, dirt thought better of it and leaped over an old log and into 
the thick underbmish. Porcupines, rabbits, squirrels, mice, shrews, etc. 
also are there and d oubtless many others animals less common, which we 
did not see. The spruce partridge is the most common game bird. We 
had many of them to eat. Salmon and trout are very abundant and of 
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good size. Some years ago we a salmon that weighed more than 30 lbs. 
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ttiitXjnBnig In 1923 we h d one given us by some salmon fisherman that ^ 
weighed 12 1/2 lbs. Most of the^trout range from ^ to 5 lbs each. 
On most of the rivers the fishing and hunting rights are leased outright 
by the government, but on several of our trips we have had,pemission of 
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