INTRODUCTION. 



A FEW words of introduction may be permitted to 

 one who has read these pages with a special interest. 

 To all who rejoice in invigorating sports, whether of 

 the land or waters, the work will commend itself by 

 the vivid pictures it photographs by the stirring 

 incidents related the bright and genial spirit that 

 glows upon the page nor less, too, by the novelty 

 of the sport. Usually, in works of this nature, we 

 are constrained to hunt in a circle, pursuing round 

 and round the same game through very similar inci- 

 dents. Here, the scenes described will be to most 

 readers entirely new; few will ever have heard of 

 the great " Vampire of the Ocean," that figures so 

 largely in the sport. 



A word of him, so full of life and spirit, by whom 



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