PREFACE. 



A PORTION of some of the chapters in this volume 

 has appeared in the form of articles in BlackwoocPs 

 Magazine,, Cornhill, and Fry's Magazine, and I wish 

 here to make my acknowledgments to the Editors of 

 these periodicals. 



The hunting districts 1 have described in the follow- 

 ing pages fall into two categories. They are either, as 

 in the case of Norway, Canada, and Newfoundland, 

 within easy distance of Great Britain, or else they are 

 altogether out of the beaten track. A considerable 

 part of the ground covered in Patagonia, Labrador, and 

 even in Newfoundland, had not previously been visited 

 by sportsmen, and there the conditions remain to the 

 best of my belief unaltered in the short time which has 

 elapsed since I passed through them. 



A few statistics may be of interest. Apart from the 

 game which I was forced to shoot in order to feed a 

 comparatively large party in crossing Patagonia, I find 

 that during the trips dealt with in this book, as far as I 

 can calculate, I fired at an animal on an average once 

 for every six days' hunting. I mention this because 

 an idea seems to be prevalent among a section of the 

 community that big game shooting is inseparable from 

 slaughter on a large scale. 



