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and overdrawn picture of the reality. Nor has their writer 

 any pretension to being either an erudite traveller, or a 

 mighty hunter to whom hair-breadth escapes and thrilling 

 adventures have been common occurrences. Consequently 

 he is well aware that he is somewhat rashly launching his 

 frail craft, so to speak, on the ruthless waves of criticism, 

 with a very great risk of its foundering. But he trusts that 

 the friends at whose suggestion he has ventured to put these 

 simple reminiscences into print, and his brother sportsmen 

 more particularly the younger ones, for whom they are in 

 a great measure intended may find something to divert 

 them in this humble endeavour of an old member of the 

 fraternity to portray a few scenes and incidents gathered 

 from his bona fide notes of wanderings and wild sport among 

 the fells and forests of the Himalaya Mountains, and on the 

 bare rolling uplands beyond them. 



