CHAPTER XVI. 



KECOVEEY AND DEATH OF LOST BEARS DIFFICULTY OF REARING VERY 



YOUNG CUBS. 



BUT though the wounded bear spoken of in the last 

 chapter, as well as other bears, had for the time escaped 

 us, it was our full purpose to retrieve them if possible. 



As, however, nothing could be done with the beasts in the 

 then state of the snow, and as there seemed no immediate 

 prospect of more falling, Lord Downshire, after resting for a 

 day or two at Ronnum, departed for England, taking with 

 him as a souvenir several of our hard-earned trophies, and 

 amongst the rest the skin of a bear killed by himself. Jan 

 Finne also left me his little farm, situated in the depths 

 of the Wermeland forests, requiring his personal superin- 

 tendence. 



But it was not until the commencement of the new year 

 that a particle of snow fell, and then in such small quantities 



