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the daytimt. At night a closely woven cheese-cloth canopy-bag fitted 
to the tent and. sufficiently large to permit sleeping inside is essential. 
Allimembers of our party were told to provide cheese-cloth canopies 
of this sort, but one member who apparently had never encountered a real 
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swarm of midges thought that fine bobbinett woud do just as.well and 
would look better. It certainly did look better, but after a few 
nights of punishment he was not. jfuite as enthusiastic about its good 
looks and lack of efficiency. 
The mosquito is familiar to all of you. in Gaspe she had the same 
frjesindly feeling for a human being as elsewhere, only here she brings 
along the whole family and you soon have—arfeeiiag-of' persona 
vae*rt to each one of them. 
Moose-flies and deer-flies do not ordiixarily come in swarms, but they 
are large enough and persistent enough to partially make up for lack of 
numbers. They commonly come as individuals and stick by you untiljjyou 
succeed in annihilating one of than, whj6|ph may be soon or not so soon, 
(usually the latter), and then according to my experience two others 
come to see what it is all about. 1 have often wondered if it was not 
wiser to let one fly bitjtyou rather than to kill him and get two others. 
Game and fish: 
Game and fish are abundant in the interior. Caribou, formerly roamed 
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the region^and perhaps^they do now, but I have never seen one/although 
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»n— C a rmen ., yww -1 aaw .&a$y ; of their cast off antlers which.could not have 
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been^more than a - f e w years^ old. Moose are common and the principal 
large game. We have enccuttered A on various occasions, including our 
trip of 1923. Some years ago on Tabletop Mt. I saw 4 moose at one time 
in a small pond on the tableland. Doubtless others were in the woods 
near by. Bears are altogetherpoo common. We have seen signs of them 
