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saw something grey moving on the bait, so we both fired 

 together, and there was a great commotion, earth and stones 

 flying in all directions for a few moments, after which all was 

 still, and on descending we found that we had got a fair-sized 

 bear, with a beautiful skin, one ball having taken him in the 

 hind quarters and one breaking the spine in the middle of the 

 back. This firing from above is very deadly, and we never failed 

 to get a bear hit in this way. The Colonel went the following 

 night, and got a third bear, after which they got shy, and 

 did not come to the bait again while we remained there. 



We were going to dinner one day when Tendoi and one of 

 his men, who acted as a kind of aide-de-camp, rode into camp, 

 and were very much astonished to see four large bear-skins 

 pegged out round the tent, as the killing of a grizzly entitled 

 an Indian to call himself a warrior and ranked with the taking 

 of a scalp. Of course they stayed for dinner, for which we 

 happened to have made a large curry, a thing which neither 

 of them had ever tasted before, and with which Tendoi was 

 delighted, taking eleven helpings, though his companion did 

 not like it. Tendoi told me that he had never eaten anything 

 so good in his life, and after he had finished he sat against the 

 waggon-wheel patting himself and saying, " Me feel heap a 

 good, me!" and then he called me and, patting me on the back, 

 held up two fingers, and told me that they represented himself 

 and myself who were two brothers, adding that if anyone hurt 

 me he would kill him, or, as he put it, " Me kill urn, me ! " 

 Before leaving us Tendoi told us that the Crows were coming 

 to his camp to dance the war-dance, and that he hoped we 

 would come and stay with him and see it, which I promised to 

 do, the Colonel preferring to remain in camp, having a great 



