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to me once more the same kindly consideration 

 they have always given me in the past. 



With the ever-growing brotherhood of young 

 and vigorous big game hunters, I cherish the 

 hope that this plain tale of the latest wanderings 

 of an elder brother of the craft may find some 

 favour. May it not only afford interest and 

 information, but act as an incentive to the 

 undertaking of hunting trips to one or other 

 of those vast and still unexplored hunting 

 fields of North-western Canada, which are 

 still almost virgin ground to the British 

 sportsman. 



American Alaska, in the central portions of 

 which all the species of great game inhabiting 

 the far north-west of the American Continent, 

 are still extraordinarily plentiful, is at present 

 closed to the sportsman. Closed, too, by laws 

 which do not seem to have been inspired by 

 any great measure of common sense. For 

 although the few wandering sportsmen, who 

 under kinder legislation might visit the 

 country, and spend a good deal of money in it, 

 for the sake of a few good heads of moose, 



