Excerpt from Newfoundland and Its Untrodden Ways The centuries roll by, but our primal passions to chase and overcome the beasts of the field are just the same as when Fingal cried, The desert is enough for me with all its woods and deer. In his mythological creed the Gael believed that the Spirits of the Dead found delight in pur suing aerial deer over the mountains of the Silent land, as well as those of the earth. The poet Ossian, too, says The departed children of earth pursue deer formed of clouds, and bend their airy bow. They still love the sport Of their youth, and mount the wind with joy. Spiritualists tell us that in the future state we shall continue to lead the lives we have lived here, but with greater joy and wider scope. If this is so, the pleasure of Chasing herds of giant megaceros on the astral plane will be no little consolation in the Great Unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.