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requirements. The impressions of our wanderings 

 were invariably recorded within a few hours ; and 

 the entire book, with few exceptions, was written 

 under canvas — a fact which I may urge as some 

 excuse for shortcomings. Again, I think I may 

 fairly claim to have omitted neither " those 

 details wherein the difference really lies," nor the 

 means by which I accomplished my journey. 

 Indeed, before I had, so to say, the imprimatur 

 of so well-known an authority, I feared I had 

 perhaps been too prolix in these matters. 



In the following pages I have made free use 

 of a number of my own articles which have 

 appeared during the last two years in various 

 periodicals ; and I here desire to return thanks to 

 the proprietors of the Field, Live Stock Journal, 

 Bod and Gun, and Shooting Times, for their kind 

 permission to do so. 



SNAFFLE. 



Corfu, 



October, 1896. 



