My First Book.
By R. M. Ballantyne.
Illustrations by Geo. Hutchinson.
(Photographs by Messrs. Fradelle & Young.)
Having been asked to give some account of the commencement of my literary career, I begin by remarking that my first book was not a tale or “story-book,” but a free-and-easy record of personal adventure and every-day life in those wild regions of North America which are known, variously, as Rupert’s Land—The Hudson’s Bay Territory—The Nor’ West, and “The Great Lone Land.”
