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with me when I hunted buffalo, and I am certain that 

 neither of them attributed failure to me in any way. 

 They were Major Martin and Lieut. Bayard of the 

 U.S. army, in whose hands I should be as happy to 

 trust my character as I should to any officer in the 

 English army. In America therefore, with the officers 

 of that service, my character is perfectly safe. I have 

 only to see that, in a sporting light, it is not unfairly 

 assailed here. I gave the death shot to the first buffalo 

 I ever saw, on my excellent chestnut horse ; and on the 

 same horse (christened Taymouth) I drove from a herd 

 and fairly rode down unwounded an immense buffalo 

 bull, and then when he refused to fly any farther, but 

 turned to fight, I killed him, my sole weapon the 

 breech loading carbine, made by Mr. Prince of Bond 

 Street. 



I am not anxious to laud my own success, but if I 

 am put to do so by these false reports, why the truth 

 shall be told. 



Your very obedt. servant, 



GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY. 



LIVERPOOL. Dec. 4, 1859." 



The narrative of his adventures in the Far West 

 appeared in The Field, and roused so much interest 

 that the circulation of that journal was enormously 

 increased. In fact, there is a tradition in the journalistic 

 world that The Field dates its establishment as a great 

 newspaper property from the appearance of Grantley 

 Berkeley's articles. Berkeley himself, I believe, used to 

 boast that he had made the fortune of its proprietor. 



