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far as reported, were killed in the Coast Range 
on the closing days of the season. On _ the 
very last day Fred Fitch brought down a buck 
near Loma Prieta which weighed 258 pounds 
dressed, On the same day E. W. Jacks killed 
a five-point buck in the Mount Hamilton Range 
which is said to have gone very close to three 
hundred pounds, Captain Frank Canon, of Sac- 
ramento, got his second deer for the season in 
the Eldorado county mountains a few days_be- 
fore the close of the season. Ame. BE. 
The Season in Newfoundland. 
St. Jouns, N. F., Oct. 15.—Editor Forest and 
Looking at the South Side Hill as it 
sunlight, the reflec- 

lies bathed in the evening 
tion is forced upon me that now indeed the sum- 
mer days are old. Rising from the waterside, 
where the dwellings of the residents nestle at 
the base of the hill, its rugged sides present a 
pleasant picture in many tints. The dark green 
of the grassy slopes is intensified by the ridges 
above, which shade from bronze to deep crim- 
son, while away to the summit, the giant 
boulders take a tint of their own, which shades 
harmoniously with the dark green of the small 
spruce and fir that bound the skyline. 
When the South Side Hill dons its garment of 
many colors, all who run may read, that the 
summer days are truly over. 
The fishing season all over the island was late, 
and not as satisfactory as in other years, yet 
good sport was had, and good catches reported. 
The caribou season is now here, and several 
American hunters are on the various deer 
grounds, looking for antlered heads. Caribou 
are reported plentiful, but the weather of late 
has not been favorable to the sport. 
The partridge season opened a fortnight ago, 
but the weather conditions were unfavorable, so 
that the bags reported to date are much smaller 
than those of the first days of last season. 
The Premier, Right Hon. Sir Robert Bond, 
who takes great interest in our sporting facili- 
ties, has imported a quantity of capercailzie to 
stock the barrens, and add to our sporting at- 
tractions. Mr. J. Guillie Millais, the celebrated 
English naturalist and sportsman, secured 33 
birds—24 hens and 8 cocks—and shipped them 
to Sir Robert. They arrived in prime condition, 
and were liberated a couple of days ago at 
Whitbourne, on the Peninsula of Avalon. That 
is about the very best part of the island for the 
experiment, as the birds will have a_ better 
chance there than elsewhere. They can be more 
easily protected, and as there will be a close 
season for about ten years, they will have every 
chance to increase and multiply. 
The Peninsula of Avalon should be made a 
game preserve for many reasons. If some more 
caribou were added to those already there, and 
if they were protected for a number of years, 
we could easily keep a very large herd of cari- 
bou for years to come. Caribou, partridge and 
the recent importation of capercailzie would all 
have a chance to increase in a country well 
adapted to their needs, and no one would be 
prejudiced. I hope to see the peninsula turned 
into a great game preserve before many years. 
I was at Trinity a few days ago and saw the 
remains of a monster sperm whale. At the risk 
of being accused of telling tall fish yarns, I will 
give some figures obtained from the manager 
of the factory, W. Sinnott. No doubt he will 
be happy to verify them for any one who is 
curious enough to make inquiries. It appears to 
me from a glance at the data supplied that the 
3ible is not so far out after all, and that the 
miraculous voyage of Jonah is not as improb- 
able as it appears to the votaries of the higher 
criticism. Of course many of the higher critics 
never saw a whale, and are on that account 
better fitted to dogmatize on the subject than 
either the early Biblical writers, or the modern 
whale killers. 
This was a sperm whale. It was killed near 
Trinity on Sept. 11, 1907. It was not considered 
a very large whale, as it was only 59 feet long. 
From its head was obtained 98% casks of sperm 
oil, containing 46 gallons each. Five and one- 
half barrels make a ton of oil. The principal 
objection to the Biblical story, by those who 


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class it as an allegory is, that a whale cannot 
swallow anything large and therefore could not 
take down an ordinary size man. When this 
whale was opened they found in its stomach one 
large shark nine feet long, very little digested. 
It also contained two large halibut and another 
in an advanced stage of digestion, and about fifty 
codfish of various sizes. 
Over twenty people can testify to these facts. 
I must confess it was a revelation to me when I 
heard that the average whale had cuch a 
capacious swallow. I was under the impression 
that this mammoth fish could not swallow any- 
thing larger than a herring at a single gulp. 
When I heard the particulars of this fish, I 
took down the figures and verified them on the 
spot. I give them to Forest AND STREAM in 
hopes that it may induce some one interested in 
such matters to investigate the swallowing 
capacity of ordinary whales, with a view to prov- 
ing that the miraculous Bible story is not so 
improbable after all. 
Owing to the backward weather the partridge 
hunters had not good sport this season. The 
following clippings will give gunners an idea of 
the sport enjoyed by our local nimrods who 
tramped the barrens in quest of partridges: 
Messrs. R. C. Grieve and Hal. Hutchings, who 
spent a fortnight on the Cape Shore grounds, 
secured seventy-three partridges. They report 
birds very scarce and the weather unpleasant. 
Mr. J. Outerbridge and his son Norman, who 
spent a couple of days at Holyrood, saw no par- 
tridge, but brought home twenty-six snipe. Birds 
were never scarcer in that neighborhood. 
Mr. Hugh Fraser, who covered the barrens in 
the vicinity of the Butterpots, brought back a 
well filled bag. 
Messrs. Gerald Harvey and Arthur Hayward, 
shooting at Peter’s River, bagged eighty fine 
birds. Messrs. J. C. Strang and W. Jocelyn, who 
were also at Peter’s River and vicinity, shot over 
four score birds during the fortnight there, but 
to such able gunners this is very poor. They 
say partridges were scarce and very wild. The 
heavy rains of the past two weeks took much 
of the enjoyment out of the trip. 
A. Stroud, of Alexander Bay, and a lad named 
Sharpe, had excellent shooting on the Terra 
Nova, near George’s Pond and killed about 
twenty wild geese, which were very plentiful. 
Several black bears were reported along the 
railway line last week. W. J. Carro_t.— 


Another Warden Shot. 
DANIEL EpWaArRpSs, a game warden of Beacon 
Falls, Conn., was shot last Sunday by an Italian 
and his death is probable. In attempting to 
arrest two men for illegal hunting, one of them 
fired two charges of shot at him, but although 
Mr. Edwards and Constable Kirk, who was with 
him, returned the fire, the murderers escaped. 



HOUSEBOAT, 
Recent Deaths. 
Jesse HoLiipAy, a pioneer in western trans- 
portation, early expressman, and a brother of 
Ben Holliday, died last week in Chicago at the 
age of eighty-two. 
Mr. Jesse Holliday was born in Maysville, 
Ky., in the year 1825, and in 1850 went to Cali- 
fornia. At one time he and his brother owned 
a line of steamships plying between San Fran- 
cisco and Honolulu, and in connection with their 
transportation lines the continent they 
were pioneers in the express business which has 
grown to such astonishing proportions in modern 
times. Mr. Holliday’s wife was a daughter of 
Col. Geo. W. Ewing, of Indiana, a leader in 
early pioneers’ work in the West, and an asso- 
ciate of the first John Jacob Astor in fur trading. 
Newton A. Couper died at his summer cottage 
at North Spring, ‘Lake, N. J.) Oct. 21, after a 
long illness from typhoid-pneumonia. His age 
was thirty-two years. Mr. Couper was very fond 
of trout fishing, and was a member of the 
Anglers’ Club of New York and the New York 
Cotton Exchange. Overwork undermined his 
health and he went to the country during the 
summer, but he failed steadily until the end came. 
He is survived by Mrs. Couper and three chil- 
dren. 
ANGLERS who have fished the Delaware River 
will remember George W. Jones, of Hancock, N. 
Y., whose death occurred at Black River, in the 
Adirondacks, last week. Apoplexy was the cause. 
Mr. Jones had been hunting deer when he was 
stricken. 
FRANK MEAKIN died in St. Louis last week, 
after being confined in a hospital four mouths, 
from injuries received in an accidental fall. He 
was a well known sportsman and had traveled 
into many of the remote big game regions of the 
world. 
Bears to Draw Sledges. 
CAPTAIN RoALp AMUNDSEN, the Norwegian ex- 
plorer, whose intention it is to make another 
expedition in search of the North Pole in 1910, 
in an interview has stated that he intends to try 
polar bears to haul his sleds. Hagenbeck is 
training four bears and guarantees that they will 
be perfectly docile. Bears, he thinks, will be 
more serviceable than dogs, as they hibernate 
during the six months of winter. Each bear 
will draw a sled. They will be fed on seal meat. 
The captain’s plans are to enter by the Bering 
Straits and allow himself to be carried in by 
the tide from Nippon, which flows north, and 
wait until he sees a chance to have a try for 
the pole. It will be necessary to take provisions 
for six years. 

