PEEFACE. 



THIS record of a sojourn in the Highlands will, it 

 is hoped, have a certain interest to those who have 

 not trod the heather, as well as to those who have. 



Eegarding the first although many may be in- 

 different to field sports, still there are very few 

 who do not appreciate the wild and varied beauties 

 of Highland scenery, and even if caring little about 

 the shooting of grouse or taking of salmon, most 

 people do feel curious to learn wherein lies the 

 charm of pursuits so eagerly sought and so 

 expensively procured. This I have tried to explain 

 and describe simply and without exaggeration. 



To sportsmen these pages will recall much of 

 their own pleasant experience, and perhaps excite 

 curiosity and after-inquiry by the details of certain 

 phenomena and events connected with the firce 

 natural of the hills which they may have carelessly 



