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scalp, and several hunters each got more than a hundred 

 scalps in one year. A party of five professional hunt- 

 ers spent a whole year in hunting for grizzlies only in 

 Oregon in 1848, and they brought into Sutter's Fort, at 

 Sacramento, 700 pelts." 



Although the grizzly appears clumsy, and has the 

 shuffling gait common to all bears, it has been known 

 to overtake and kill the bison. It has killed and car- 

 ried away a two-year-old cow. Captain Dan Fuller, 

 of Portland, Ore., says : " I have known young griz- 

 zly bears to carry carcasses of heifers for more than 

 fifteen miles as fast as most men can run. Once I saw 

 an old grizzly carrying a dead pig weighing 150 

 pounds in its forepaws and mouth as easily as a boy 

 would carry a cat. I saw a she-grizzly carrying a year- 

 ling cow home to her cubs." Kit Carson used to say 

 that the grizzlies he and his comrades encountered in 

 the West during the thirties were the most awful 

 things ever known on four feet, beside which modern 

 grizzlies are gentle and refined. It was an old saying 

 in the West that " A man's a fool to go arter b'ar 

 alone." 



The grizzly attacks and kills for vengeance and, as 

 I have observed, it does not eat human flesh. The 

 bears that devoured the youths who made improper 

 remarks concerning the bald pate of the patriarchal 

 Elisha, were certainly not of the grizzly variety.* 



* Grizzly- Uear Lore, II. G. Tinsley. 



