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and there remained while the bear closely guarded 

 the foot of the tree until late in the afternoon. He 

 then went off, and M'Neal being released came 

 down, and having found his horse, which had 

 strayed off to the distance of two miles, returned 

 to camp. These animals are, indeed, of a most ex- 

 traordinary ferocity, and it is matter of wonder that 

 in all our encounters we have had the good fortune 

 to escape." 



The grizzly was introduced to the world by Gov- 

 ernor DeWitt Clinton of New York, who appears to 

 have taken his information from the Journal of 

 Lewis and Clark. In the course of an address before 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society of New 

 York City in 1814, he completely misinterpreted 

 the real character of the grizzly and popularized a 

 number of errors that not only were believed then 

 but have survived to this day. The real grizzly is a 

 distinguished character; but the grizzly as com- 

 monly described by tongue and story — well, 

 "there ain't no such animal." 



Governor Clinton in discussing the work in store 

 for the coming naturalists said, "There is the 

 white, brown, or grizzly bear, the ferocious tyrant 

 of the American woods — it exists, the terror of 



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