Dec. 7, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
735 
CARIBOU IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 
Continued from page 71S. 
are the harp, the.hood and the bay seal, differ¬ 
ing in color and size, the hood seal being the 
largest and the male having a hood or bag 
which he blows up over his head, the color, 
brownish; the harp seal, smaller and blue in 
color, and the bay seal white and brown spotted 
—all hair seals. Hides worth $1.00 to $5.00, 
and the oil thirty cents per gallon. The young 
harps, when born, have a white coat for ten 
days and do not swim, so they are killed on the 
ice with clubs, this being between the 10th 
and 20th of March. They turn to a dark brown 
after going into the water, after which it is 
necessary to shoot in order to get them. 
“A sealing steamer in a good season may 
take 30,000 or 35,000 seals. She is a powerful 
boat and can force her way through two feet 
of ice. The largest steamers carry 200 men, 
all of whom live down in her hold like dogs in 
a kennel, in the worst crowded, worst smelling 
den you ever saw, and hunt out from the ship 
in parties of ten or twelve across the ice. The 
seal catch does not seem to diminish, there ap¬ 
pears to be just as many on the average as 
there were forty years ago.” 
He proposed that some fine summer I join 
him about the first of July, the very best time 
for salmon and trout in Terra Nova waters, 
which are later than the Humber and the west¬ 
ern rivers; that we fish for two weeks and then 
go to Rocky Bay, fifteen miles east of Alex¬ 
ander Bay, and shoot bay seals for ten days 
or so, saving the skins to make winter coats 
for a lady and a little girl I know. This sound¬ 
ed good to me, and it is one of the things I 
am going to do. 
Just as Bob finished telling me about the 
seal hunting, two splendid flocks of geese 
passed up the river, flying low, within thirty 
yards of camp. 
It rained hard all night, and we started 
hunting in the morning through thickets of 
spruce and fir, wet as a rag, crossing out north¬ 
west of camp on to small hardwood ridges, 
through occasional little bogs and brooks. 
Having seen no recent fresh sign of stags along 
the river, Bob concluded that the old fellows 
were still in the woods, putting the finishing 
touches on their new horns, and that for the 
present we must still-hunt for them instead of 
watching the river crossings and bogs. There 
was a little chain of small ponds not very far 
back of camp, and we hunted down across two 
of them and past the others, one by one. seeing 
little fresh sign of stags. It started to rain 
again, and by mid-afternoon we were pretty 
well drenched, so turned back toward the river. 
Said Bob: “We might take a last turn up by 
the little pond, but it doesn’t seem much use. 
I never knew sign of stag in here so scarce.” 
The changes in hunting luck come swiftly, 
and I suppose that is half the charm of it; the 
ever-present thought that suddenly the toil and 
watching and discouragement may be rewarded 
by the sight of noble game. As we peered out 
across the little upper pond, Bob slid down in 
the roots of the small spruces, and there, stand¬ 
ing above the water back to us, looking up 
hill, was a splendid stag, so large and white 
and topped by such a spread of red horns that 
I could scarcely believe my eyes. He seemed 
much more like a white moose than a deer. 
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