PREFACE. 



THE following pages, descriptive of different 

 incidents in a Hunter's life, are selections from 

 the journal of a wanderer over many lands, 

 which, having excited a certain degree of interest 

 amongst a class who have themselves participated 

 in similar scenes, the Author has laid before the 

 Public ; in the hope that some of his comrades, 

 many of whom are " mighty hunters," and abler 

 with the pen than himself, will follow his example, 

 and disseminate the knowledge they have acquired 

 by experience during their sojourn in " the path- 

 less woods," as their accounts cannot fail to be of 

 intense interest to their brother sportsmen, and a 

 great assistance to the uninitiated who may wish 

 to follow in their footsteps. 



