This, with the infliction of heavy penalties for the
ruthless destruction of animal life, should secure a
fresh lease of existence for the various species whose
extermination now appears to be imminent.

Please accept my best wishes for the success of your
work, in which you may always count upon my greatest
sympathy.

Believe me,

Yours truly,

ARTHUR.




II. VERIFICATION.


In order to make quite sure about conditions up to date, I spent two
months last summer examining some 1500 miles of coast line, from Nova
Scotia, round by Newfoundland to the Straits, and thence inwards along
the Canadian Labrador and North Shore of the St. Lawrence. On the whole,
I found that I had rather under- than over-stated the dangers
threatening the wild life there, and that I had nothing to retract from
what I said in my _Address_ and _Supplement_.

As I spent one month among the fishermen of Nova Scotia and