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Deer of any kind, and the sheep and goat 

 tribe, although their pursuit amidst the 

 precipices, and across the icy chasms and 

 eternal snows of the Hmialayas, is attended 

 with perhaps more real danger, than hunting 

 the ferocious animals of the feline race in 

 the plains and jungles of India, yet they 

 are little likely to furnish narratives of much 

 interest to the general reader. It is only 

 to those who have been sharers in similar 

 adventures, and who can follow in imagi- 

 nation every step of the narrator, that such 

 subjects are of peculiar interest, and not a 

 tu'esome repetition. 



Bear hunting, carries with it ideas of 

 rather more exciting work, and I will try 

 if memory can recall a few incidents con- 

 nected with it, worthy of being rescued from 

 oblivion. When first 1 began a hunter's life, I 

 was so perfectly reckless, so careless of even 

 the common precautions we should suppose 

 a man would naturally take, that upon 

 retrospection, I often wonder, that I was 

 not either killed outright, or desperately 



