94 BIG GAME SHOOTING IN ALASKA chap, v 



thin and rubbed. We soon came to the conclusion that the 

 bears had made tracks towards the mouth of the river to 

 await the run of salmon some time in June, and would then 

 probably follow the fish up to the lake, where they could 

 easily catch them late in the fall, when salmon are weak after 

 spawning. All this looked doubly certain because, in that 

 exceptionally late spring, all the hillsides were still quite bare 

 of any young grass or other food for bears. 



