204 HUNTING TRIPS 



tigers in India, lias never had a chance at a 

 grizzly. Any one of the big bears we killed 

 on the mountains would, I should think, have 

 been able to make short work of either a 

 lion or a tiger; for the grizzly is greatly su- 

 perior in bulk and muscular power to either 

 of the great cats, and its teeth are as large 

 as theirs, while its claws, though blunter, are 

 much longer; nevertheless, I believe that a 

 lion or a tiger would be fully as dangerous 

 to a hunter or other human being, on account 

 of the superior speed of its charge, the light- 

 ning-like rapidity of its movements, and its 

 apparently sharper senses. Still, after all is 

 said, the man should have a thoroughly 

 trust-worthy weapon and a fairly cool head, 

 who would follow into his own haunts and 

 slay grim Old Ephraim. 



A grizzly will only fight if wounded or 

 cornered, or, at least, if he thinks himself 

 cornered. If a man by accident stumbles on 

 to one close up, he is almost certain to be 

 attacked really more from fear than from 

 any other motive; exactly the same reason 



