Hunting the Grizzly 8i 



on to inform me, he had shot a caribou in the 

 bog and had used it for bait. He constructed 

 a three-quarter circle, or rather arc, of poles 

 driven into the ground, after covering well with 

 brush; and within the circle set his steel trap 

 attached to a log twenty feet long and about 

 six inches in diameter and covered carefully 

 with moss and leaves to conceal it; then the 

 caribou meat was placed back of the trap, but 

 in such a position that old Bruin must pass 

 over the trap in order to get the bait. When 

 the trapper reached his trap the first time, he 

 discovered an eagle in it and his meat all car- 

 ried away by a bear. He reset his trap, and 

 placed the eagle in it for bait; and when we 

 came along the eagle was still there, but the 

 trap was gone. The trapper started on the 

 trail of the " tog," through the brush, and into 

 the stream. The trail was plain ; the earth was 

 turned up, brush peeled, and small trees were 

 gnawed off. Finally we spied old Bruin — in 

 the toils, fast to a good-sized tree, lying down 

 in about a foot of water. As we approached 

 nearer, he made some vain attempts to reach 

 us, and when we walked around him, would 



