A CHROMATIC BEAR HUNT 



great or how rapid the ruin, there was an inex- 

 haustible supply of ice constantly edging for- 

 ward to take the place of that which fell off. 

 We felt as if the glaciers must surely destroy 

 themselves, but a week of warm weather, 

 during which the breakage was constant, had 

 no visible effect upon them. As a matter of 

 fact, those glaciers are still there, although 

 they have been working for several years, so 

 many years, to be exact and let us be exact 

 that if a geologist were to begin to figure it 

 out when he left college he would have a gray 

 beard so long it would trip him up before he 

 had finished the problem. 



After a particularly large cave-in it was the 

 custom of the engineers to search the rocks 

 for king salmon thrown out by the waves. 

 The bears were likewise fishing up at the 

 rapids the surveyors had seen them through 

 their transits so on the afternoon following 

 our arrival we set out across the lake, searching 

 our way through the drift ice. 



"Look out for the eddy below the cataract," 

 they admonished us. "If your boat gets into 

 that you won't get out. Keep as close to the 

 glacier as you dare but not too close, either, 

 or a tidal wave may swamp you." 



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