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The next instant the bear clambered over the 

 head of the canoe and rolled the occupants into 

 the water. The young brides of a few days ran 

 screaming along shore, unable to render any 

 assistance to their husbands, and actually wit- 

 nessed both drown before their very eyes. 



I remember the arrival of the two poor 

 women back to the coast, and the relation of 

 their pathetic story. To make the case much 

 more remarkable, they were twins by birth, and 

 twin widows by this tragedy. 



A word of advice after the foregorng illus- 

 trations of the danger of getting in front of a 

 swimming bear is hardly now necessary, but one 

 cannot impress too forcibly the danger in at- 

 tacking a bear by a frontal move. Always ap- 

 proach a bear in the water either on one side 

 or from the rear. You can paddle up quite 

 close to a bear in the direction he is swimming 

 without the least particle of danger, and a more 

 vital and telling spot to fire at cannot be got 

 than the back and base of the skull. 



