Vlll PREFACE. 



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 bonafide notes 

 of wanderings and wild sport among the fells and 

 forests of the Himalaya mountains, and on the bare 

 rolling uplands beyond them. 



