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own friends that I should bring out this work which finally 

 induced me so to do. Had any more competent writer, or 

 sportsman of wider experience, previously undertaken a 

 similar task, it is probable that this book would never have 

 seen daylight. At the time of commencing the volume, it 

 had no rival in the field to overshadow it, and therefore 

 I felt that, poor as it might be, it would not suffer by com- 

 parison, as I believed it likely to be the one first published 

 in England which dealt with sport in Alaska. Since the 

 date of commencement my friend Colonel Claude Cane has, 

 however, brought out an excellent book entitled Stimmer 

 and Fall in Western Alaska. But having gone so far, 

 I decided to risk the publication of this book in the hope 

 that there is still room for another descriptive work on a 

 country so vast as Alaska. 



Suffice it, then, that I hope the information given may 

 be found useful to others contemplating a visit to that fine 

 country, and if such prove to be the case, one good object 

 at least will have been accomplished. 



C. R. E. RADCLYEFE. 



Hyde, Wareham, 1904. 



