170 BRUIN DISPOSED OF. 



greasy brown hunting-shirt which he wore, was com- 

 pletely blackened by the smoke of his torch. 



But Bruin was disposed of, smoked to death. 

 The old fellow, however, acknowledged, with evident 

 grief and disappointment, that from the contracted 

 proportions of the interior, the carcass could neither 

 be removed nor skinned. As the cave was not long, 

 he returned into its depths for a few pounds of the 

 meat, which, when exhibited in daylight, looked any- 

 thing but appetising, from the ashes and mould which 

 had become attached to it. 



