FOREWORD 



The intendment of this volume is not to present 

 a work on wilderness travel nor is it offered as a 

 treatise on woodcraft, though it necessarily contains 

 somewhat of both. Its sole purpose is to accur- 

 rately record the writer's experiences and observa- 

 tions as a hunter of big game in The Yukon just as 

 they happened day by day and set down in my diary 

 at the time the events narrated transpired. 



When the writer has assumed to go beyond the 

 range of his own experiences and relate those of his 

 hunting companions, the diary records those experi- 

 ences just as related to him by his companions about 

 the camp fire at the end of the day's chase. 



For the benefit of those who may desire to follow 

 the writer's trail into this remarkable hunting field, 

 it seemed wise to incorporate an account of the route 

 taken by this expedition together with a brief de- 

 scription of points of interest along the way. The 

 modes of travel with their difficulties, the items of 

 equipment, expeditionary and personal, the charac- 

 ter of the commissary, and the methods of hunting 

 are set forth as indispensable to a true account of 

 the summer's work and a possible help to any who 

 may travel the same trail. 



