PREFACE 



In the preface to " Riverby " I told my readers 

 that that was probably my last out-door book. But 

 my life has gone on, my love of nature has con- 

 tinued, my habit of observation has been kept up, 

 and the combined result is another collection of 

 papers deaHng with the old, inexhaustible, open- 

 air themes. There may even be another volume in 

 the course of the following year. 



The only part of the present collection that has 

 not been in print before is the chapter on Jamaica. 

 The account of the trip to Alaska originally ap- 

 peared in the first volume of the " Harriman Alaska 

 Expedition," published by Messrs. Doubleday, Page 

 & Co. in 1901, where it was profusely illustrated 

 by text cuts, full-page photogravures, and colored 

 plates. I am indebted to Mr. Harriman and to the 

 publishers named for permission to use it in this 

 collection. 



August 1, 1904. 



