PREFACE. 



I MAKE no apology for reprinting the purely sporting 

 articles in this volume ; they have been tolerably well 

 received by the readers of the Field, and if the re- 

 perusal of them in a collected form affords them only a 

 portion of the pleasure the performance of the adventures 

 therein described has given me^ my object will be fully 

 attained. 



Of that portion which touches on travel in South 

 America I wish to say a few words. I had at first wished 

 to extend the articles I wrote to the Field (from 

 which the chapters in this book are condensed) to such 

 a length as should give my readers a pretty fair idea 

 of the capabilities and resources of Chile and Peru. 

 But in commencing my task I found that my three 

 or four years' residence in those countries had been quite 

 insufficient for the purpose. I have, therefore, preferred 

 at present to give merely a sketch of the principal 



