THE MORAL 319 



noted as an African big game hunter, con- 

 fesses: "I think I can truthfully say I have al- 

 ways enjoyed hunting apart from mere kill- 

 ing the distinction is important. I learned 

 to enjoy and value it for the knowledge it 

 gave me of a thousand and one useful things, 

 and for the opportunities it afforded of study- 

 ing them. On the great western plains I 

 spent many months as far back as 1868 when 

 no white man came, and the whole country 

 swarmed with game. I have hunted in the 

 forests of New Brunswick and on the barrens 

 of Nova Scotia and Quebec, and therefore 

 have had much experience." 



It is worthy of note that the hunters, the 

 naturalists, the trappers, and the missionaries 

 are the first men to open up the wildernesses of 

 the far-off lands where big game abounds. 

 The hunter inevitably will be in first, followed 

 by the trapper and then by the naturalist; then 

 comes the missionary, the priest, and the 

 bishop. It was the faculty of observation 

 combined with the hereditary instinct for the 

 open that gave us John Burroughs, Walt 

 Whitman, John Muir, and many other natur- 

 alists, whose writings and experiences are 

 destined to become classics in literature. 



If you would follow the innate instinct 



