CARIBOU MURDER.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 11, 5 February 1907, Page 6

CARIBOU MURDER.

Companies That Slaughter Banditdi of the Animals In Newfoundland. Newfoundland is probably the only country in the world where venison, salted or fresh, is a staple article of diet for the masses. The coast folk make their plans with method and deliberation, says Outing. From the harbors where they reside they go in their boats to Hue rivers and fords which strike into the interior. When navigation is no longer possible they debark and continue on foot to the deer conntry. They carry barrels filled with salt and sometime® go in large companies. When the rendezvousis.reached they camp. Then they ambush themselves along a promising “lead” or deer track, a fined with a long, six-f ootmuzzle-load-ing sealing guns, which they charge with about “eight fingers” of coarse gunpowder and “slugs” of lead, fragments of iron or bits of rusty nails, whichever they may have. They fire point blank into a herd of caribou, osit passes, and being usually good shots, contrive to kill almost anything' they aim at, or to wound it so badly with these dreadful missile® that it sooncollaps«B, Then they skin and cut up the meat, for these men know a little of every trade, and pack it In the barrels with the saltas a pr eservative.