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PREFACE 
Some two or three years ago, a friend of mine, to 
whom I had been narrating some of my experiences, 
warmly urged me to write a book. Knowing that 
works on big game hunting and tales of adventure 
were innumerable, and having little time after the 
arduous labour of the chase to devote to literary 
pursuits, I, at first, viewed the project with some 
hesitancy. The idea, once conceived, however, 
began to mature, and having kept an unbroken 
diary for the last sixteen years, I felt (apart from 
any hope of the result some day appearing before 
the public) that the setting forth of my rough notes 
in a more finished form would be an excellent 
method of indulging in the pleasures of recollection, 
and of calling up before my mind’s eye the scenes 
and people I love so well. If the perusal of my 
narrative whiles away one dull moment from the 
reader’s life, I shall feel all the more convinced that 
the time I have spent thereon has not been wasted. 
I have intentionally divided up my matter into 
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