PREFACE. 



THE success of my former Work, entitled " Field Sports 

 of the North of Europe," the reception of which was equally 

 flattering in this country as well as abroad where it was 

 translated into more than one language has induced me 

 again to appear before the Public.* And though I have 



* In Sweden, where immediately after its appearance my first work was 

 translated, and went through two editions, the following notice appeared 

 in the " Aftonblad," the leading paper of that country the "Times," in 

 short, of Scandinavia : " The seldomer it happens that unprejudiced foreigners 

 have written on our native country, the more welcome ought their works 

 to be. Anidt, Catteau, Colville, and many others, have described Sweden ; 

 and they have often come near the truth. But the larger portion of their 

 materials have been collected in the boudoir, &c. ; and the maps of the 

 country have rather attracted their attention than the Natural History of 

 Sweden, its inhabitants, and their customs. Lloyd has with his own eyes 

 seen and judged. His free roving life has placed him in better situations, 

 in those districts through which he has wandered, to study nature and 



