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arrows, and the bad guns which the traders supply 

 them, they are obUged to approach very near the 

 bear, and as no wound except through the head or 

 heart is fatal they frequently fall a sacrifice if they 

 miss their aim. He rather attacks than avoids man, 

 and such is the terror which he has inspired that 

 the Indians who go in quest of him paint them- 

 selves and perform all the superstitious rites cus- 

 tomary when they make war on a neighboring 

 nation. Hitherto those we had seen did not ap- 

 pear desirous of encountering us, but although to 

 a skillful rifleman the danger is very much dimin- 

 ished, yet the white bear is still a terrible animal. 

 On the approach of these two, both Captain Lewis 

 and the hunter fired and each wounded a bear; one 

 of them made his escape; the other turned upon 

 Captain Lewis and pursued him seventy or eighty 

 yards, but being badly wounded he could not run 

 so fast as to prevent him reloading his piece, which 

 he again aimed at him, and a third shot from the 

 hunter brought him to the ground." 



Below are two additional paragraphs from the 

 Journal of Lewis and Clark. These show that the 

 grizzly was most wide-awake and curious, and also 

 that he was not accustomed to being afraid. 



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