PREFy\Cn. 



The experiences, and conclusions on Gunnery and 

 Natural History that I have arrived at from them, 

 are the result of many years of travel and hardship in 

 the most distant parts of the world. To place them 

 before the public in their present form has afforded 

 me much pleasure, and their perusal, I trust, will be 

 interesting to the general reader. 



Although it will be learned that I have made heavy 

 bags, I have never done so unless the game could be 

 utih'sed as food ; for unnecessary slaughter, to my 

 ideas, is one of the greatest wickednesses that the 

 human family can be guilty of. I wish, therefore, that 

 my countrymen would think as I do on this point, 

 when fortune or inclination places them in the great 

 natural preserves of the Universe. 



" Ubk^UE." 



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