PREFACE 
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T HE immensity of the Asiatic Continent, and the great variety of race, climatic 
and physical conditions that it possesses, are reflected in the number of Authors 
who have here combined to describe the Big Game of Asia. No one hunter, 
however experienced, could have described this vast Continent from his own 
experience. The Authors who have contributed to this Work write entirely from personal 
knowledge, and from actual experience resulting from many years of travel and sport. 
Mr P. B. Van der Byl devotes two chapters to the sport obtained in our great Indian 
Empire, and adds a comprehensive list of the game animals that inhabit the jungles of the 
plains and the forests and crags of the bordering mountain ranges. In another chapter he 
describes the Caucasus, of which he has an unequalled knowledge. 
Lt.-Col. R. L. Kennion, who has had unique experiences with the Big Game of Persia, 
describes many little-known regions and some rare varieties of Wild Sheep and Gazelle 
inhabiting the land of Iran. 
The remote and difficult hunting grounds of Western China are dealt with by Mr H. F. 
Wallace. No more interesting pages appear than those which are devoted to the rare Takin 
and the strange Serow. The numerous varieties of the Deer tribe inhabiting Asia are 
enumerated by the same Author. 
Mr Douglas Carruthers takes up a wide field, and writes from personal acquaintance 
with Syria, Arabia, Asia Minor, Russian and Chinese Turkestan, Inner Asia and Mongolia. 
The great Wild Sheep — typical trophy, perhaps, of hunting trips in Asia— are described at 
length, and their numerous varieties called into notice. The various races of Elk and 
Reindeer in the Northern part of the Continent are dealt with by Mr J. G. Millais; of these 
he has made a special study; while Mr Ford Barclay graphically describes the chase of the 
long-haired or Manchurian Tiger, a rare and much-prized trophy. 
Mr J. G. Millais describes the Big Game inhabiting the forest, plains, mountains and 
barren lands of North America. Unfortunately, the central portions of the North American 
Continent are no longer the happy hunting grounds they were thirty or forty years ago, but 
specimens of the Mule deer, the Antelope and the Wapiti may still be obtained, though not 
of such quality as those of the 'seventies and ’eighties. 
The Northern and North-Western American Big Game hunting is to-day as good as ever 
it was, and the sportsman has as good a chance of obtaining large and even record specimens 
as formerly. Caribou, Moose and Grizzlies, all of great size, still exist in these Northern 
wilds and are the reward of hunters who can incur the expense of taking the long journey 
and can bear the cold and hardships of these inhospitable regions. When the war has 
ceased, North and Central Mexico also offer an excellent field to the enterprising hunter 
who is prepared to face some danger and a scarcity of water. Bear, Sheep and Deer are 
also numerous here. 
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