Rhymes of the Survey
and Frontier
BY
GEORGE BLACKSTONE FIELD
Toronto
William Briggs
1911
Copyright. Canada, 1911
by GEORGE B. FIELD
TO
MY FATHER
F. B. FIELD
AND MY FRIEND
C. D. MACKINTOSH
THE FORMER FOR HIS INTEREST
IN HIS SON'S LIFE ABROAD AND
THE LATTER FOR HIS KIND
INDULGENCE AND SYMPATHY.
"There is no more courageous body of men than those pioneers of civilization who, taking their lives in their hands, penetrate savage countries in the interests of commerce, to survey and open up the land."—Cecil Rhodes, Rhodesia.
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