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across his knees under the great cedar-trees, and 

 watching, with evident suspicion, the approach of 

 some extremely doubtful friends in the shape of a 

 band of mounted Sioux Indians. A little farther 

 on we find him apparently making a desperate and 

 gallant endeavour to pack an exceedingly refractory 

 mule single-handed ; and now we observe him 

 lounging off, with a fishing-rod on his shoulder, 

 evidently intent in the catching of trout, while more 

 industrious individuals are employed in ' making 

 camp.' And here again we discover him, a dark 

 form seated on a wet log, a perfect picture of misery 

 and dogged endurance silhouetted against the blaze 

 of a lonely little fire and the forest primeval, with 

 the cold sleet beating pitilessly upon his shoulders. 



The journey which is described in The Great 

 Divide was one of several which Lord Dunraven 

 and George Kingsley made together in Canada and 

 the United States between 1870 and 1875; and 

 in the course of these wanderings they shot not 

 only moose in the forests of Acadia, but also every 

 other kind of living thing that is regarded on the 

 Western Continent as being legitimately shootable, 

 with the solitary exception of their fellow-men. 



The following letters, undated as usual, describe 

 two journeys made, apparently in different years, 

 to the country immediately to the west of Lake 

 Superior. 



' From Chicago, October i yth. — Lake Superior is 

 certainly the most wonderful place for mirage. No 



