Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 
1911. 
, VOL. LXXVI.—No. 21. 
I No. 127 Franklin St., New York. 
BOB SAUNDERS, DEAN OF NEWFOUNDLAND GUIDES, AND MR. GIANINI S SMALLEST CARIBOU. 
Caribou Hunting in Newfoundland 
T HE sportsman of our Eastern States mak¬ 
ing his first visit to the caribou grounds of 
Newfoundland will probably find the coun¬ 
try and conditions different from anything he 
has ever seen. He will find the land consists for 
the most part of hills and valleys, the former not 
very high and the latter shallow. This is 
covered in changing proportions with scrubby 
woodland, marshes and sandy, rock-strewn, 
moss-covered barrens. In some parts the forest 
predominates, but even in this and in high 
ground one finds marshes in abundance. 
There is water everywhere. There are hun¬ 
dreds of beautiful unnamed lakes called ponds, 
and smaller ponds called flashets; some are 
connected by streams, and others not. After 
rains, as I discovered to my sorrow last 
October, the land is afloat and every caribou 
lead or path is a running brook. On the map 
By CHARLES A. GIANINI 
some of the rivers look pretty big, but take 
them in dry weather — for sometimes it does 
not rain—they are shallow, rocky streams up 
which boats are only worked with great labor 
by lifting and hauling. As one of my men ex¬ 
pressed it, “In low water we goes overboard 
like seals and pulls the boats up.” 
There are few trips after caribou but are 
commenced in boats of some sort—this, of 
course, does not apply to the men who camp 
along the railway in the vicinity of Howley or 
Goose Brook and pot the beasts as they cross 
in the southern migration; but while some may 
want to get away into the great central interior 
with canoes, others do not care to go so far, 
and a day’s voyage on water with an easy 
pack into the “edge of the country” suffices 
and even then often results in good heads be¬ 
ing obtained. Of course the man with the real 
hunter’s instinct will want to get as far inland 
as possible where he will find no other hunters 
and the game unmolested, and this he can best 
do in canoes. 
The all-important thing the sportsman will 
discover is that the deer are there—great cari¬ 
bou—not to be seen singly or only in spots of 
color as our deer, but in herds of anywhere 
from six to twenty in a band. If he should 
happen to see them when they are moving 
about or traveling he will see more caribou 
than he ever dreamed of. During the summer 
months they keep pretty well to the woods— 
the does and fawns by themselves, and the stags 
putting on fat and getting in condition for the 
rutting season and possibly chumming their 
few remaining bachelor days with other stags. 
In September they come out more in the open 
to feed and the stags will commence rubbing 
