keep out of range or under cover. It is not uncom- 

 mon for two or three hunters in different parts of 

 bear territory, searching with field-glasses, watch- 

 ing from high places, taking advantage of the wind, 

 and moving silently, to spend a week without even 

 seeing a bear, although bears were about. Many 

 times, even when trailed with dogs, through his 

 brains, his endurance, and his ability to move rap- 

 idly over rough territory, the grizzly escapes being 

 cornered. 



I have often been in bear territory for days with- 

 out seeing one. Then again I have seen two or more 

 in a few hours. Frequently I have been able to 

 watch a grizzly at moderately short range for an 

 hour or longer. I was chiefly concerned to get near 

 enough to study his actions, and not to take a shot, 

 as I trailed without a gun. But many a day I have 

 failed to see a grizzly, though I searched carefully 

 in a territory which I knew and where the habits of 

 the individual bears were somewhat known to me. 



A grizzly territory is covered with a web of dim 

 trails over which he usually travels. If surprised, the 

 grizzly turns and retreats over the trail on which 

 he was advancing. A bear's trail, close behind him, 

 is a dangerous place to be in if he does retreat. 



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