Identifier: newfoundlandin00mcgr (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland in 1911, being the coronation year of King George V. and the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: McGrath, P. T. (Patrick Thomas), b. 1868
Subjects: Newfoundland and Labrador
Publisher: London : Whitehead, Morris & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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193 be more iust and fewer stags be unworthily slain.Incidentally 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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