PREFACE. 



TIIE subject of hunting is one which has a peculiar 

 interest for the people of this country. So large a 

 portion of our territory, even in the most thickly 

 settled States, is still covered with forests abounding 

 in game and beasts of the chase, that almost every 

 citizen occasionally becomes a sportsman or a hunter; 

 and those who never engage in any sport of the hunt- 

 ing kind, nevertheless, are interested in the narratives 

 of those who have distinguished themselves in forest 

 and field. 



The following pages have been compiled with a 

 view not only to gratify curiosity and afford enter- 

 tainment to the general reader, but to furnish useful 

 information respecting the natural history and habits 

 of animals, and the modes practised by various na- 



tions in hunting them. 



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