Excerpt from The Red Track: A Story of Social Life in Mexico Well, be it so, I accept the assertion. Gustave aimard is but a hunter; he has seen nought but uncivilized life; he has spent years among savages, and has returned to his own country to try and grow Europeanized again. What then? The very objection is a proof of his veracity and I am fully of the con viction that every story he has told us is true. It is not reason able to suppose that a man who has spent the greater part of his life in hunting the wild animals of America - who has been an adopted son of the most powerful Indian tribes-who has for years never known what the morrow would bring forth, should sit down to invent. The storehouse of his mind is too amply filled with marvels for him to take that needless trouble, and he simply repeats on paper the tales which in olden times he picked up at'the camp fires, or heard during his wanderings with the wood-rangers. And it is as such that I wish gustave aimard to be judged by English readers. His eminent quality is truth. He is a man who could not set down a falsehood, no matter what the bribe might be. He has lived through the incidents he describes, and has brought back to Europe the adventures of a chequered hfe. He does not attempt to fascinate his readers by a compli cated plot. He does not possess the marvellous invention of a 000mm, who, after a slight acquaintance with a few powerless Indians, wrote books which all admirers of the English lan guage peruse. But gtstave ainard possesses a higher quality, in the fact that he only notes down incidents which he has seen, or which he has received on undoubted evidence from his corn panions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.