ACCLIMATISATION SUCCESS. DEER AT THE REMARKABLE GAP.
(From a Correspondent.)
About two months ago, four deer were seen in the vicinity of the Remarkable Gap by one of, a party of miners from the Waikaia, s _who were out prospecting this, little frequented tract of country. They are described by our informant, as a buck and a doe and two young ones— one of .them being this season's fawn, the other apparently twelve months older. The place where they were observed, is about 6000. feet above the sea level, and distant eight miles from the "north pole," in one of those siugular snowy fltets which are to be met with in that elevated locality. My informant, who came 'upon • the deer suddenly, was within eaay range and had ample time to observe them. As they are little likely to be' disturbed in the wild arid grand solitude in which they have taken up their abode, in a few years a large incr*ease in their numbers .may be counted upon; but stalking in that locality, except to men endowed wjth the exceptional powers and endurance of chamois hunters, will be out of the question. ' Where the deer can have come from, is more than I can guess.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 223, 9 May 1872, Page 7
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206ACCLIMATISATION SUCCESS. DEER AT THE REMARKABLE GAP. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 223, 9 May 1872, Page 7
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