X BIG GAME SHOOTING IN ALASKA 



"lack the glory of words." All that can be claimed as a 

 merit in the book is that most of it was written almost at 

 the actual time of occurrence of each event described, and 

 that it purports to be a true record of facts by an eye- 

 witness as he saw them. I may take this opportunity of 

 apologising to my readers if the style of writing seems to 

 be somewhat egotistical, but it is hard to avoid the use of 

 the first person singular when writing of one's own personal 

 exploits. Moreover, it is almost impossible to describe 

 clearly and accurately the experiences of one's friends and 

 companions when one was not actually a spectator of the 

 events. It would have given me no small pleasure could I 

 have induced my friend and companion, Mr. R. F. Glyn, to 

 contribute something to this work, giving some of his own 

 experiences during our trip ; but I have been utterly unable 

 to overcome his modest fears that his capabilities as a 

 writer are not equal to the task. 



There must always be a certain amount of dull reading 

 in accounts of shooting-trips when recorded, as they usually 

 are, somewhat in the form of extracts from a diary. To 

 the writer himself these may be sufficiently interesting in 

 after days, but they are seldom equally so to those who did 

 not actually participate in the incidents described. 



Alaska is to-day one of the few remaining countries 

 where there are yet many thousands of miles untrodden by 

 the foot of man, and, in consequence, it still has that great 

 charm of the unknown which ever entices the roving British 

 sportsman. ; 



It was only the urgent requests of a number of my 



