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CHAPTEE XVI. 

 OTHER ANIMALS: 



INCLUDING GRIZZLY, CINNAMON, AND BLACK BEARS COUGAR, OR PUMA 

 PANTHER, AND WILD CAT. 



IN the foregoing pages I have endeavoured to give the 

 reader a correct idea of the nature and habits of such 

 animals as the plains hunter will be sure to encounter if 

 lie goes to the right places. There are other animals 

 which he may come across, but which no length of hunt 

 or selection of locality can beforehand guarantee even a 

 sight of; and, unless specially fitted out for their pursuit, 

 his hunting for them will meet with no success, except 

 by the merest accident. 



This special fitting out consists in providing himself 

 with a pack of first-rate dogs, trained to hunt the 

 animals of which he is in search. If intending a long 

 hunt, he should have dogs specially to hunt each 

 kind of wild beast. These should be carried in wag- 

 gons when not wanted for hunting, otherwise they will 

 soon disable themselves in crossing the cactus-covered 

 prairies. Of course this kind of hunting costs money. 

 If he can afford the expense it is for the sportsman him- 

 self to decide whether he had better hunt, say for bear, 

 for several reasons, without a dog, on the very slim 

 chance of catching one on the open ; or spend money in 

 the purchase of one or more good bear-dogs, with the 

 assurance of bagging his bear on the first hunt. 



Of all animals to be hunted with dogs the most 

 important in size, and formidable in character, is the 



