XVI 



A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION 



A GREAT many years ago my Interest in natural his- 

 tory, which grew out of my interest in hunting, 

 caused me to give a certain amount of attention to photog- 

 raphy. Little by Httle, as I became more expert in this, 

 I took to carrying a camera with me on my various expe- 

 ditions, and finally I came to making excursions with no 

 other end in view than the photographing of game. It was 

 a long time, however, before I developed a definite am- 

 bition to photograph a grizzly, because the difHculties 

 which presented themselves in that field were so many 

 that at first I saw no way of overcoming them. 



Much hunting has not only made the grizzly very shy, 

 but has caused him gradually to become even more noc- 

 turnal or, to be accurate, crepuscular, than he was origi- 

 nally. It follows that in these latter days the chances of 

 obtaining a daylight picture of a grizzly are almost negli- 

 gible, and though by some lucky chance one might meet a 

 bear in a snap-shotting light when one had a camera ready, 

 the coincidence would be too unlikely to depend upon. 

 When, therefore, I began to think seriously of attempting 

 to photograph these bears, I of necessity turned my mind 



to flash-light, and for several years I worked and experi- 



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