8 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



It is now a good many years since I ceased 

 to make my living by my rifle, but in view of 

 the length of time during which I did so, and 

 the eventful character of the life I then led, it 

 is not, perhaps, remarkable that my thoughts 

 still often wander back to a past of stirring and 

 glorious memories. Nor is it surprising that 

 I sometimes grow restless and dissatisfied with 

 life in this highly civilized country, and long 

 with an irresistible longing to taste the joys of 

 a hunter's life once more. 



Those to whose lot it will fall to criticise this 

 book, will possibly find it more surprising that 

 I should have had the hardihood, after having 

 already written so much on the subject of sport 

 and travel, to publish the record of the few 

 unimportant hunting trips which have been 

 the outcome of my restlessness during the 

 last few years. 



I can only hope that in these transcripts from 

 my diaries, written nightly over the camp fire, 

 when the events described were fresh in my 

 memory, they will find here and there matter 

 of sufficient interest to incline them to extend 



