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wildest apprehensions of grief and 
consternation. Mr. C. returned to 
England shortly after, and having 
formed a new connection with a 
Captain Robert Scott and his bro- 
ther, he made two more voyages 
to Labrador, which would have 
proved somewhat more productive 
than the former attainments, had 
he not had the misfortune to be 
pillaged by an American privateer, 
lost several ships, and met with 
other accidents. We shall extract 
from his journal, during this period, 
the following account of a singular 
bear-hunt; which may not prove 
uninteresting to our readers. 
** On entering Eagle River, we 
observed a wolvering going along 
the south shore of it; which is the 
first I ever saw alive, unless in a 
trap. When we got to the first ra- 
pid, which is as high as a boat can 
go, we saw a brace of white bears 
in the river above, and a black 
one walking along the north shore. 
I landed on the south side with my 
double barrel and rifle; and ordered 
Captain Kettle to land Jack on the 
opposite shore; then to follow me 
with one of his men, and leave the 
other to take care of the boat, and 
keep her afloat. I had not gone 
far, before I observed a very large 
black bear walking upwards, on the 
other side of the river; which soon 
took the water and swam across, 
but landed at some distance above 
“me, and went into the woods. 
** About halfa mile higher, I came 
to a very strong shoot of water, oc- 
casioned by the river being pent in 
between two high points; from 
thence I saw several white bears 
fishing in the stream above. I wait-, 
ed for them, andina short time, a 
bitch with a small cub swam down 
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eda little below. The bitch imme- 
diately went into the woods, but 
the cub sat down upon a rock, when 
I sent a ball through it, at the dist- | 
ance of a hundred and twenty yards _ 
at the Jeast, and knocked it over ; 
but getting up again, it crawled into 
the woods, where I heard it crying 
mournfully, and concluded that it 
could not long survive. 
“Tbe report of my gun brought 
some others down; and it was no 
sooner reloaded, than another she- 
bear, with a cub of eighteen months 
old came swimming close under me. 
I shot the bitch through the head, 
and killed her dead. The cub per- 
ceiving this, and getting sight of me, 
as I was standing close to the edge | 
of the bank, which was near eight 
feet above the level of the water, 
made at me with great ferocity ; but 
just as the creature was about to re- 
venge the death of his dam, I salu- 
ted him with a load of large shot in 
his right eye, which not only knock- 
ed that out, but also made him close 
the other; during which time he 
turned round several times, pawed. 
his face, and roared most hideously. 
He no sooner was able to keep his 
Jeft eye open, than he made at me 
again, quite mad with rage and 
pain; but when he came to the 
foot of the bank, I gave him a se- 
cond salute with the other barrel, 
and blinded him most completely = 
his whole head was then entirely 
covered with blood. The second 
shot made him act in the same man- 
ner as the first, until he struck the 
ground with his feet, when he Jand- 
ed a little below me, and blundered 
into the woods, knocking his head 
against every rock and tree that he 
met with. 
“© T now perceived that two others 
_ close to the other shore, and land- -had just landed, about sixty yards 
above 
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