FOREWORD. 



IT is some years now since I first made the acquaintance 

 of Mr. Hesketh Prichard, who had then only just returned 

 from his great journey through the unexplored wilds of 

 Patagonia, a really remarkable achievement for so young 

 a man. At that time Mr. Prichard was perhaps better 

 known to his fellow-countrymen as a first-class cricketer 

 and joint author with his mother of many popular works 

 of fiction than as an explorer and hunter, and it was as a 

 cricketer that I first came to know him at all intimately, 

 for he was good enough during several successive seasons 

 to bring down a team to play against the village eleven of 

 which I was, and indeed still am, the President. In the 

 intervals of our cricket we talked big game, and appraised 

 the worth of the caribou and moose heads in my collection, 

 which I had then recently brought from Newfoundland and 

 the Yukon Territory of Canada, and Mr. Prichard' s young 

 enthusiasm, whether for cricket or big-game hunting, always 

 did me good, and it is this same quality in the pages of the 

 book, for which these few lines will serve as an introduction, 

 which has given them a charm for me which I do not always 

 find in accounts of shooting trips. I have read every chapter 

 in this book with very great interest. Those on caribou 

 hunting in Newfoundland have appealed to me very strongly, 

 because I also have wandered very widely over the barrens 

 and across the lake-strewn wastes of that wild and beautiful 



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