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small satisfaction, that Bruin was making off. He 

 was badly wounded, however, and we followed him 

 for several miles by the blood, but, unfortunately, he 

 got into a wilderness of willow bushes, and hunt as 

 we could, we could not find him — a great pity. 

 From the immense size of his tracks we calculated 

 that he would v/eigh, at least, a thousand pounds. 

 We are off to-morrow to Salt Lake City, there to 

 prepare for an excursion to the Yellowstone district 

 which they are making such a fuss about here. I 

 expect to find it mighty like the Geyser district in 

 New Zealand, larger possibly, but much the same 

 kind of thing. If the Indians are not quiet I don't 

 know what we shall do afterwards. Poor brutes, 

 they are great ruffians, but the majority of the 

 whites with whom they come in contact are quite as 

 bad, so they improve one another.' 



* Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone, 

 ' 7.0th September 1874. 



' We have had very poor sport, for though we 

 have been in a country swarming with grizzly bears 

 we have only killed one. I was mousing around by 

 myself the other day with the little Ballard — (a 

 little, single-barreled rifle) — and hearing something 

 smashing about in the willow beds, and thinking 

 that it might be a deer, I proceeded quietly to 

 investigate, when out there lounged the great- 

 grandfather of all the grizzlies. He looked at me 

 for a moment, and then turned and trotted off, 



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