Newfoundland in 1911, being the coronation year of King George Vand the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century . 193 be more iust and fewer stags be unworthily the conntiy AYOuld benefit, as the hunterwho goes into the interior spends, say, £100 as againstthe ten pound note of the railway sportsman. Mr. J. G. Millais, author of The Mammals ofGreat Britain and Ireland, who hunted in the colonyseveral seasons, says: Eor its size, Newfoundland to-daycontains more caribou than any other part of the world,and, owing to the nutritive qualities of its excellentmosses
Newfoundland in 1911, being the coronation year of King George Vand the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century . 193 be more iust and fewer stags be unworthily the conntiy AYOuld benefit, as the hunterwho goes into the interior spends, say, £100 as againstthe ten pound note of the railway sportsman. Mr. J. G. Millais, author of The Mammals ofGreat Britain and Ireland, who hunted in the colonyseveral seasons, says: Eor its size, Newfoundland to-daycontains more caribou than any other part of the world,and, owing to the nutritive qualities of its excellentmosses and lichens, they grow to great excellence. It isalmost a platitude to say that a fine caribou head of, say,thirty-five points, is a trophy worth winning, for it is ofsuch size and form that no really good collection is com-plete without a couple of good specimens. Big heads arejust as rare or as frequent as ever they were, and afterseeing large numbers of stags, I should say that anyhunter who goes far enough afield and works hard issure to see at least one forty-pointer for a season. In1902, I killed stags of thirty-f
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