Preface 



parted friend with pensive misgiving, knowing that 

 he would have deprecated any discharge of musketry 

 over his grave. His daughters, Mrs. Thomas Rea 

 Hanna and Mrs. Buel Alvin Funk, have honored me 

 with the request to transmit the manuscript for pub- 

 lication, and later to consider with them what salvage 

 may be made from among their father's unpublished 

 writings. They also wish me to express their grateful 

 acknowledgments to Houghton Mifflin Company, 

 with whom John Muir has always maintained close 

 and friendly relations. 



WILLIAM FREDERIC BADE. 



BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, 

 May, 1915. 



