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VOL. LXX1X.—No. 17. 
127 Franklin St., New York. 
A S there may be some readers of Forest 
and Stream who contemplate a trip in 
quest of caribou, it occurs to me that it 
may be interesting, for those who have never 
as yet hunted this noble game, to know some¬ 
thing about what they may expect to find in 
Newfoundland and Northern New Brunswick. 
Having secured satisfactory trophies of the 
deer, bear and moose families, my thoughts and 
desires naturally turned toward caribou and a 
trip to Newfoundland. It is the general custom 
of those who make this trip to land at Port an 
Basque and take the Reid-Newfoundland Rail¬ 
road for some point in the interior—Gaff 
Topsail, Grand Lake, Deer Lake, or some such 
place. Owing, however, to a very sad experi¬ 
ence which I had in the beginning of my hunt¬ 
ing career, when my side partner was mistaken 
for a deer and killed, I then and there made 
two resolves, which I have since religiously ad¬ 
hered to—first, not to allow my guide to carry 
a gun, and second, not to hunt in a section 
where the report of a gun from another party 
could be heard. Therefore, when I decided to 
go to Newfoundland, the regular route was not 
one that I cared to take, and instead of going 
on the railroad, I laid out a trip up the South 
Shore, approximately primeval hunting country, 
where one could come and go at his own sweet 
will, without the possibility of confliction with 
any other hunting parties. 
The south coast of Newfoundland is most 
peculiar. After starting inland, I had a climb 
of approximately two thousand feet before I 
reached the barrens, which were practically on 
top of the mountains. There is no timber 
growth, as a matter of fact, nothing tall 
enough to stretch our tent on, we having to 
carry our tent poles with 11s. The few trees 
that were there averaged not more than four 
to five feet in height, the trunks being six to 
eight inches in diameter, with limbs stretching 
out ten to fifteen feet on either side. This 
peculiar growth was undoubtedly caused by the 
freezing of the young tops, so that instead of 
growing high, they grew wide. The vining 
spruce and mossy growth covered the barrens, 
and underneath this was generally three to four 
inches of water. In this section one never had 
dry footing unless standing on a rock. 
There were numerous small lakes on the 
tops of the mountains, and, very much to my 
