6 INTRODUCTION 



the Hunting Trail " by Theodore Roosevelt, " A 

 Vagabond Journey Round the World " by Harry A. 

 Franck, " Hunting with the Eskimos " by Harry 

 Whitney, " In Search of a Siberian Klondyke " by 

 Washington B. Vanderlip and H. B. Hulbert ; to Messrs. 

 Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) for permission 

 to quote from " Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada " 

 by Clarence King, " The Congo and Coasts of Africa " 

 by Richard Harding Davis, " The Wilderness of the 

 Upper Yukon " and " The Wilderness of the North 

 Pacific Coast Islands " by Charles Sheldon ; to Messrs. 

 Dodd, Mead & Co. (New York) for permission to 

 quote from " High Mountain Climbing in Peru and 

 Bolivia " by Annie S. Peck ; to the American Tract 

 Society (New York) for permission to quote from 

 ' Through the Wilderness of Brazil by Horse, Canoe, 

 and Float " by W. A. Cook ; to the Methodist Book 

 and Publishing House (Toronto) for permission to 

 quote from " Across the Sub- Arctics of Canada " by 

 J. W. Tyrrel. 



The work is offered to the public in the hope that it 

 will encourage readers to turn to the books them- 

 selves. A full bibliography is given at the end -of 

 the volume. 



