American Big Game in its Haunts 



was down, but trying hard to get upon his feet, 

 and evidently in an angry mood, so I ran up close 

 and gave him another shot, which again knocked 

 him over. 



Now for the first time I had a good view of the 

 bear, which proved to be a very large one. As my 

 men declared that this was one of the largest they 

 had ever seen, I think we may safely place it as 

 a fair example of the Kadiak species. Unfor- 

 tunately I had no scales with me, and could not, 

 therefore, take its weight; but the three of us were 

 unable to budge either end from the ground, and 

 after removing the pelt the carcass appeared to be 

 as large as a fair sized ox. We had much diffi- 

 culty in skinning him, for he fell on his face, and it 

 took us some half hour even to turn him over ; we 

 were only able to do this by using his legs as levers. 

 It required over two hours to remove the pelt. 

 Then we had tea and shot the bear all over again 

 many times, as we sat chatting before the fire. 



It seemed that at the time when I had first 

 caught sight of this bear, Nikolai had just located 

 the bear which we had originally seen and were 

 following, and it was a great piece of luck my tak- 

 ing this snap shot, for the other bear was much 

 smaller. 



We took the skin and skull with us, while I 

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