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new quarters, we may look for some authentic information as to 

 the habits of many animals now — like that concerning which I 

 am now writing — so vaguely described as to be almost fabulous. 

 I hope, en passant, that when all or any of them wish to give 

 the world at large a correct idea of the diet of particular beasts 

 or birds, they will descend a little more to niceties than Captain 

 Wilkeshas condescended to do, in describing that of the Grizzly 

 Bear. " Its food," says the gallant captain, " is the same as 

 that of the Indians, and varies with the seasons." We presume 

 that he might have added, " and of the whites," since his mean- 

 ing is evidently that its food is whatever it can get ; which, in 

 those regions, is, in fact, as all know who have read Fremont's 

 Journal, the food of all who visii them — except, by the way, 

 that I never heard of either white or Indian supping upon man 

 which, unless foully belied, is a favorite jjlat of my friend the 

 Bear. 



