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lake which we had seen when out on the barrens ; it was studded with 

 islands, and not far from where a huge bear had fallen to our guns a 

 few days before when berry picking. He came quietly along, licking 

 in the blue-berries, and when about twelve yards from us, who lay 

 behind a rock, I bowled him over with an eleven to the pound bullet. 

 My Indian, Peter, fired also, and terminated his death struggles by a 

 bail through the brain. The other bear had likewise been stretched 

 in the same locality. We had been calling on the barrens and had 

 heard moose several times, but wind arose and they got to leeward of 

 lis. Early next morning it became tolerably calm, though a few 

 light puff's of wind came from the westward. A bull moose, accom- 

 panied by a cow, advanced, but winded us ; and we saw them spinning 

 over the barrens for a long time, making for the deep woods to the 

 west of our lake. We kept a bright look-out for ' Mr. Mooin,' and a 

 black object was presently discerned in the distance, though whether 

 it was a bear or a moose we could not make out ; it seemed to keep 

 so much about the same spot, and seemed so large at times that we 

 thought it must be the latter animal. Well, Peter and self started 

 for the locality ; the wind got up in our favour, and we advanced 

 with rapidity, though, at the same time, with caution. Should it 

 prove to be a moose we were not to fire ; we had killed enough meat 

 at that time, and besides bore in mind the great distance we should 

 have to carry our load out of the woods. On nearing the place 

 where we had seen the black object we crept to a large rock, 

 cautiously looked from its shelter, and at once sighted a bear. We 

 could just see its shoulders and head ; it lay on its belly, and was 

 picking berries from a bush apparently held down by its fore paws. 

 I fired my right barrel, but missed my mark. This brought the 

 monster to a sitting position, when, taking a second aim, my bullet 

 pierced his head, and tumbled over a full-grown he bear. When we 

 examined the trees about, we found that what had given him such a 

 strange appearance to our eyes, when viewing him from a distance, 

 was, that he had been on his hind legs, pawing the bark on the tree 

 with his fore ; this was evident from the nature of the traces. 



"AVell, now to my tale. We got to camp about noon, and, as 

 before stated, were bound to see the lake of the islands. There was 

 a good deal of talking and smoking over the matter, but early one 

 morning found us packed and in marching order. Leaving my boat 

 capsized at the foot of Lake Mooin, we took to the woods, heading 

 for Lake Merganser ; found our little canoe, which had been con- 

 cealed in the bushes by the shore ; crossed, and struck off for the 



