PREFACE 



In submitting this small work to the criticisms of brother 

 sportsmen, or others of the. reading public into whose hands 

 it may fall, it is the earnest desire of the author that the 

 following facts may be borne in mind during its perusal : 

 Firstly, that it is not the outcome of a wild desire on the 

 part of the writer to rush into print and air his own views 

 on certain matters, or to lay down, after spending only 

 one season in Alaska, any hard and fast rules as to the 

 habits of certain kinds of game, and the best mode of killing 

 them. Such a mistake is only too common on the part 

 of many young sportsmen, and even of others of more 

 mature years in search of small notoriety. Men of far 

 greater experience on the same subjects hesitate to express 

 any opinion, or to place on record in print any of their own 

 ideas, for fear of appearing ridiculous in the eyes of a very 

 few who may know more about these matters than the writers 

 themselves. 



Secondly, I am fully aware of my inability to do adequate 

 descriptive justice to the scenery and to many incidents 

 here narrated, since a remark of Tennyson, when speaking 

 of Browning's works, is appropriate to my case, in that I 



