American Big Game in its Haunts 



declare roams the hills between Eagle Harbor and 

 Kiliuda Bay. 



The storm which began on the 13th continued 

 until the 17th, and this was but one of a series. 

 Winter seemed to come back in all its fury, and I 

 believe that whatever bears had left their winter 

 dens went back to them for another sleep. It was 

 not until the middle of May that the snow began 

 to disappear, and spring with its green grass came. 



All this time I was camped with my natives at 

 the head of the bay, some fifteen miles from our 

 base of supplies. On the 23d of April we first 

 sighted tracks, but it was not until May 15 that I 

 finally succeeded in bagging my first bear. 



The tracks in the snow indicated that the bears 

 began again to come out of their winter dens the 

 last week in April ; and should one wish to make a 

 spring hunt on the Kadiak Islands, the first of 

 May would, I should judge, be a good time to 

 arrive at the shooting grounds. 



When the wind was favorable, our mode of 

 hunting was to leave camp before daylight, and 

 paddle in our baldarka up to the head of one of 

 these long bays, and, leaving our canoe here, 

 trudge over the snow to some commanding ele- 

 vation, where we constantly used the glasses upon 

 the surrounding hillsides, hoping to see bear. We 



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