“The experience of twenty years passed as a rambler in various parts of the world, though principally as trapper, hunter, and naturalist, East and West of the Rocky Mountains, enables me to state from actual observation, that a ‘ green hand,’ to use a slang term, on his first visit to a wild country, in nine cases out of ten arrives from the land of civilization completely hampered, entangled, and weighed down, so to speak, with a medley of utterly useless things, which he never would have purchased had he been guided or directed by any person who knew how to travel.”