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in the quiet work of a profession. He was fond of all kinds of 

 field sports, and had a yearning for a life of wild adventure j we 

 therefore find him, in 1847, an exile from his native land and a 

 wanderer among the wild mountains, woods, and lakes of Sweden 

 and Norway. The details of this part of his life are entirely 

 wanting. In 18^1 he went to Australia, and lived some years on 

 the banks of the Murray, as a wandering sportsman in the bush. 

 After his return to Europe he wrote and published his first work 

 a small book entitled "Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist; or, 

 Notes on the Field Sports and Fauna of Australia Felix, by an Old 

 Bushman," a new edition of which is now issued.* 



From the introduction of this interesting little book we copy the 

 following : 



"Six years' rambling over the forests and fells of Northern 

 Europe had totally unfitted me for any settled life. I had no luck 

 in the diggings. The town was out of the question ; and to keep 

 the wolf from the door there were but two alternatives to seek 

 work in a situation, or face the bush on my own account. I chose 

 the latter, and never regretted that choice. I luckily fell in with a 

 mate in the same circumstances as myself. The gun had often 

 brought both of us 'to grief in the Old World, so we agreed that 

 for once it should help us out in the New. Our tastes were 

 similar. The sphere of life in which we had both moved at home 

 had been the same, and therefore all those little disagreements and 

 collisions which are the inevitable consequences when men of dif- 

 ferent education, training, and tastes are shut up together in the 

 close companionship of a bush tent, were avoided. For nearly 

 four years did we rough it under the same canvas, with scarcely a 

 single dispute, and very rarely even ' a growl.' We had, it is true, 

 hardships to contend with, but we never met troubles half way. 

 * London : Frederick Warne and Co. 



