204 TRUE BEAR STORIES. 



the long campaign in the wilderness, that 

 tracks over eleven inches in length were 

 made by cinnamon bears, and not by gen 

 uine grizzlies, although some hunters de 

 clare that the cinnamon is only a variety 

 of grizzly, and that the color is not 

 the mark of a different species. However 

 that may be, the difference between the 

 two varieties is very distinct, and as the 

 object of the expedition was the capture? 

 of an indubitable California grizzly, no 

 special effort was made to trap any of the 

 big cinnamons. 



The smaller bears soon gave up the con 

 test for the beef and left the field to Pete 

 and the grizzly, who quarreled and fought 

 around it for several nights. At last the 

 grizzly gave Pete a thorough licking and 

 established his own right to the title of 

 monarch of the mountain. The decisive 

 battle occurred one moonlight night and 

 was witnessed from a safe perch in a fork 

 of a tree near the trap. 



It was nearly 9 o'clock when the snap- 



