Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilderness

Hesketh Prichard H.

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The hunting districts I have described in the following pages fall into two categories. They are either, as in the case of Norway, Canada, and Newfoundland, within easy distance of Great Britain, or else they are altogether out of the beaten track. A considerable part of the ground covered in Patagonia, Labrador, and even in Newfoundland, had not previously been visited by sportsmen, and there the conditions remain to the best of my belief unaltered in the short time which has elapsed since I passed through them.

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243651184
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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I T sinceis some years now fi rst made the acquaintance of Mr Hesketh Prichard who had then only j ust returned from his great j ourney through the unexplored wilds of Patagonia a really remarkable achievement for young a man At that time Mr Prichard was perhaps better known to his fellow countrymen as a class cricketer and j oint author with his mother of many popular works offias aand it ction than as an explorer and hunter cricketer that Ifirst came to know him at all intimately for he was good enough during several successive seasons to bring down a team to p l the village ay against eleven o f which I was and indeed still am the President In the intervals of our cricket we talked big game and appraised the wor h of the caribou and moose heads my collection which I had then recently brought from Newfoun and and the Yukon Territory of Canada and Mr Prichard s young enthusiasm whether for cricket or big game hunting always did me good and it is this same quality in the pages of the book for which th e se few lines will serve as an introduction which has given them a charm for me which I do not always fi every chapterhave read nd in accounts of trips I Shooti g in this book with very great interest Those on caribou hunting in Newfoundland have appealed me very strongl y because I also have wandered very widely over the barrens and across the lake stre w wild and beautifult hat n wastes

FOREWORD land in search of the same broad antlered stags whilst on the other hand the descriptions of Mr Prichard s hunting experie ces in Patagonia in Labrador in No way and in Easte n Canada have all given me the greatest interest because I still have hopes of following his footsteps into at least some the more accessible of these hunting grounds which he has been the pioneer In reading this book and I trust it will be widely read both in this country and on the other side of the Atlantic no one can fail to be impressed with the fact that Mr Prichard has worked very hard for and well deserved all the fine trophies which have fallen to h is rifle He has never killed wantonly but on the contrary over and over again has spared the life of a thoroug y warrantable stag in the hope which was as often as not disappointed meeting with a better Whether in Patagonia Norway New ound land here on our Worplesdon cricket ground Prichard has always played the game as a true Sportsman should What I say more except express the that this book will be widely read and that the Author s forthcoming hunting and exploring expedition into the w ds of Labrador will meet with all the success which I am sure it will so well deserve F C S ELOU S W R N S RR E E

A PORT I O N o f some the chapters in this vo l ume has appeared in the form articles in and and I wish here to make my acknowledgments to the Editors of these periodicals The hunting districts I have described in the following pages fall into categories They are either as in the case of Norway Canada and Newfoundland within easy distance of Great Britain or else they are altogether out the beaten track A considerable part of the ground covered in Patagonia Labrador and even in Newfoundland had not previously been visited by sportsmen and there the conditions remain to the best of my belief unalter d in the s h I passed through themort time which has elapsed since A few statistics may be of interest Apart from the game which I was forced to Shoot in order to feed a com large party in crossing Patagonia Ifind that during the trips dealt with in this book as far as I can calculate Ifial on an average once for everyred at an ani six d ys hunting I mention this because an idea seems to be prevalent among a section of the community that big game shooting i s inseparable from slaughter on a large scale

viii PREFACE I must cordially express my gratitude to Mr F C S elous for the he has written for theseForeword which pages and for the kindness and help that I have ways received from him H HE S KETH PRICHARD P RA W oo A N E A

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the chief charm of Patagonia lies its absolute unlikeness to any other land north or south The plains rising in vast terraces across the continent from the low coasts on the east to the mountain ranges on the west Show grass on all sides grass far as the eye can reach Not green inviting grass but yellowish harsh and prickly which leaves Spines sticking into thefingers All vegetation other than the grass is dwarf stunted by the unceasing winds which sweep over the open country Leagues upon leagues thorn no higher than a man s waist broken now and again by pebbly patches S parsely with innumerable pools and huge tracts of glacial detritus are all undergrow and and surrounded by this sea of grass It forms a very desolate and forbidding landscape yet it is one which lays a strong hold on the imagination and the memory once you have ridden across those lonely plains you often feel a desire which sometimes amounts to a craving to go back and ride across them again The feeling brings to mind the story told in the ancient chronicles of Magellan who