Hunting in Many Lands 



of nature to devote an entire season in the Park 

 simply to study of bear life ; never before has 

 such an opportunity been afforded. 



The incident mentioned on page 421 was 

 witnessed by Mr. W. Hallett Phillipps and 

 Col. John Hay. Since this incident occurred, 

 one bear has made a practice of going into the 

 kitchen of the Geyser Hotel, where he is fed 

 on pies. If given a chance, the bears will eat 

 the pigs that are kept in pens near the hotels ; 

 but they have not shown any tendency to mo- 

 lest the horses, or to interfere in any way with 

 the human beings around the hotels. 



These incidents, and the confidence which 

 the elk, deer and other animals in the Park 

 have come to feel in man, are interesting, for 

 they show how readily wild creatures may be 

 taught to look upon human beings as friends. 



Theodore Roosevelt, 

 George Bird Grinnell. 



New York, August i, 1895. 



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