PREFACE 



r I ^HE object of this book is to create an 

 interest among English Sportsmen and all 

 lovers of Nature in little-known parts of Canada 

 and the United States. The author has spent 

 a considerable part of his life on the other side 

 of the Atlantic, and knows America and the 

 district of Muskoka well. 



His mode of life abroad has often been 

 nomadic, and such that he has been obliged to 

 resort to primitive methods of living. To any 

 one who would accuse him of inhumanity he 

 would plead emphatically, " not guilty." 



In the wilds a man goes out to Nature's home, 

 seeks his own game, and stands a chance of 

 being the victim. Here considerable skill is 

 required, and no little knowledge of woodcraft ; 

 often the sportsman gets what all true sportsmen 

 like, a taste of real danger and a chance of 



