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information. Though more than five years have elapsed since I 

 bid good-bye to the West, the process of opening up a new 

 country remains ever the same, though the supply of it is becoming 

 daily more limited. 



To the sportsmen who have assisted me with photographs and 

 details of their trophies, I wish to express my sincere thanks, 

 and I trust that they will find that my chief aim, viz., accuracy, 

 has been attained. 



For the closing chapter of this book, which deals with the 

 " Yellow and White Agony," as has been called the servant 

 question out West, I am indebted to my wife. Much that she 

 describes would have escaped the masculine eye, and may 

 possibly prove of use not only to those proposing to try their 

 hand at housekeeping on the Slope, but also to prophets who 

 predict an invasion of John Chinaman into European households. 



Portions of two chapters appeared in the Fortnightly Review 

 and in the Century Magazine of New York, and I am indebted to 

 the editors for permission to reprint the passages I have selected. 



THE AUTHOR. 



