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and tear each other, until nature was exhausted, and they could 

 neither fight nor howl any longer. They will be one year old on 

 the first of next month (March, 1808) and, as I am informed, they 

 frequently arrive at the weight of eight hundred pounds. 



While in the mountains we sometimes discovered them at a 

 distance, but in no instance were we able to come up with one, 

 which we eagerly sought and that being the most inclement season 

 of the year, induces me to believe they seldom or never attack 

 man unprovoked, but defend themselves courageously. An 

 instance of this kind occurred in New Mexico, while I sojourned 

 in that province: three of the natives attacked a bear with lances, 

 two of whom he killed and wounded the third, before he fell the 

 victim. 



With sentiments of the highest respect and esteem. 

 Your obedient servant, 



Z. M. Pike. 

 His Excellency, Thomas Jefferson, 

 President of the United States. 



Richardson's "Fauna Boreali Americani'* (1829) 

 mentions that a young grizzly cub caught in the Rocky 

 Mountains was brought to England by the Hudson's Bay 

 Company and kept alive in the Tov^er. Landseer made 

 several engravings of it and a fine plate is included in 

 Richardson's v^ork. Here we first meet with the tale of 

 a trapper seized and carried ofF from beside his camp-fire 

 by a large grizzly, but rescued by a comrade. This 

 occurred on the Saskatchewan, and Richardson met and 

 talked with the rescuer, whose name was Bourasso, and 

 who had an excellent reputation for veracity. The story 

 is later quoted by Audubon. Theodore Roosevelt, in 

 "The Wilderness Hunter," tells of meeting a French 



