FOREWORD 



June 16, 1910. 



MY DEAR GREW, I was greatly interested in 

 your book "Sport and Travel in the Far East," and 

 I think it is a fine thing to have a member of our 

 diplomatic service able both to do what you have 

 done, and to write about it as well and as interest- 

 ingly as you have written. I particularly enjoyed 

 the two chapters on "Ibex Shooting" and "Mark- 

 hor and Wild Sheep Shooting" in Baltistan. Your 

 description, both of the actual hunting and the 

 people and surroundings, is really excellent; and 

 even more should be said of the chapter in which 

 you describe your really noteworthy experiences 

 in hunting the cave tiger of China. Following the 

 tiger into caves, guided by professional spear hunt- 

 ers of the neighborhood, is a kind of sport new to 

 most white men ; and its interest is heightened by 

 the danger attendant upon it. I cannot imagine a 

 more thrilling or thoroughly sportsmanlike experi- 

 ence than that of your crawling through the narrow 

 rock passages and shooting the tiger in its cavern 

 lair not four feet from you. 



Sincerely yours, 



J. C. GREW, Esq. 



