The Travellers’ Bureau: An Ideal Holiday in Newfoundland: Dear Mercury, I have to thank you for your excellent and practical advice on the matter of attire, etc., which you sent me before I started on my holiday. Of course, many have been over the ground before, but Newfoundland is somewhat out of the range of the ordinary tripper and I think you will be interested to earn something of a six weeks’ stay in a most delightful country for a summer holiday. It has charms that will appeal to all, especially those fond of fishing and shooting, which are wonderfully good and the climate exceedingly healthy … (long discussion) … Directly after we had finished breakfast we drove another seven miles and then the carriage. All our necessaries were put into a sleeping bag, which Pat, our guide, fastened on his back, and we started walking what he called the “worst four miles in the world” in order to reach Pinsents Falls, where we intended to fish. It was so beautiful though a thick forest of fir trees with here and there silver birches gleaming among the dark trunks; many of the trees were dead and looked quite ghostly covered with grey lichen. The ground was thickly carpeted and red and green moss and quantities of lilies of the valley. There was little or not attempt at a path, we were at times nearly up to our knees in bog and others obliged to scramble over stumps of faller trees and rocks that lay across our track. The camp at Pinsent Falls is situated just on the banks of the Salmonier River and consists of four or five log huts. These huts were most comfortable and contained a table and benches; the beds were formed by platforms of bark about a foot from the ground and covered with small branches of spruce while a hole in the roof served as a chimney. Long strips of bark were thrown upon the fire of huge pine logs and lit up the cabin at night, taking the place of candles and the flickering light made it look most picturesque. … (continues) … One man, while we were there, caught seventy-eight salmon in a week. The salmon caught with rod and line vary in size up to thirty pounds, but there were numerous instances of fish caught in nets weighing between forty and fifty. The flies we found most useful were Silver Doctors and Jock Scots. … May Hooke … (To Be Concluded) …
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