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PREFACE 



Most of the papers which I liave collected in this volume 

 have appeared before in various magazines and journals. 

 My thanks are especially due to the Editors of The 

 Nineteenth CeatKr//. The New Review, The Field news- 

 [)ap('r. and The Alpine Journal, for their permission to 

 reprint them. 



All but one of them descrilie the chase and death of 

 some wild animal. Perhaps the criticism will hQ made 

 that it is sad that a man cannot enjoy liiniself in foreign 

 (•<)untrio> without killini:; somotliing. I freely admit that 

 it is a pity, lnit I cannot deny that, to most of us, the 

 pui'suil oi" creatures wliidi ai'c liard to catcli, wlicllicr 

 bulLerllics or liutlaloes, is very pleasant. If ihe predatory 

 instincts whicli wc have inherited — one of my ancestors 

 was sarcastically descriljed as " worshipping, leaning on 

 his uiin " — cannot be altogether eradicated, 1 may at least 

 uru-e, in mitigation, that in .ill these iournevs, spreadino- 

 over more than a (juarter of a centui'v. I am personally 

 responsible for ihe death of less than ciuliiy tniii'-rooted 

 animals. 



