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This turned him about again, when Yowler, who had 

 escaped from the negroes, seized him by a leg and forced 

 him to halt. At this he reared himself on end, and com- 

 menced growling and waving his paws all the time, 

 resembling more a picture of Bacchus than a wild ani- 

 mal. We ran down to where he was standing, when 

 Scipio, with a blow of a club over the head, broke the 

 barrel, scattering the mackerel with which it was filled, 

 and released the animal from his confinement, who re- 

 warded the negro with a blow from his paw that knocked 

 him on the sands, when Mike and I, with a simultaneous 

 discharge of our rifles, laid him lifeless. This was a very- 

 large bear, and from the abundant mast still hanging in 

 the woods, and from the quantity of shell-fish on the 

 island, was very fat. We brought our canoe round to 

 the beach, and in a few hours were again with our trophy 

 safely back to the fort. 



