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from accidents, for from first to last I did not meet with so much 

 bodily harm as a cut finger, and returned home with health wholly 

 unimpaired. 



Enriched by experiences in foreign lands, wealth which cannot 

 be estimated in dollai'S and cents, nothing but a desire to have others 

 share with me, through the medium of these pages, the delights of 

 forest and field, river and sea, could have impelled me to the labori- 

 ous task of writing this naiTative in hours which should have been 

 devoted to rest and recreation. But if a single reader (always ex- 

 cepting the proof-reader) has followed me thus far, and experienced 

 in sympathy a hundredth part of the delight which quickens my 

 blood as I think of the scenes which I have feebly attempted to 

 describe for him, I can say that my labor has not been in vain. 



The rifle and knife hang peacefully upon the wall, their labors 

 done. Let me rest my weary pen also. Fai'ewelL 



