A HUNTERS EXPERIENCES. 



CHAPTER I. 



HINTS ON FOREST AND PEAIRIE LIFE. 



EVEK since the days when Nimrod was a ' mighty 

 hunter/ there has been a class of men who have 

 pursued wild animals, not only for the sake of feeding, 

 like wild beasts, upon their flesh, but out of pure love 

 of the excitement attending the chase, a pride of 

 mental and physical endurance which leads them to 

 face boldly dangers and difficulties so discouraging to 

 men of weaker mould, that to incur such hazard seems 

 to them mere madness. Amongst those who have thus 

 gone forth into the wilderness, the Anglo-Saxon race 

 stands pre-eminent. 



Nor is it for the sake of excitement alone that 

 they put their lives in peril. Wherever the cause 

 of science or commerce requires that discoveries 



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