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looked up the hill, and were horrified to see three 

 grizzly bears, an old female and two cubs about two- 

 thirds grown, charging upon us with all the savage 

 fury of a pack of starving wolves upon a sheepfold. 



To make a long story short, we killed the old 

 female and one cub; the other escaped into the jun- 

 gle before we could get a shot at him. The resolute 

 front we put on alone saved our lives. 



In another instance, when hunting deer in Idaho, 

 I came suddenly upon a female grizzly and two cubs, 

 when the mother bear charged me savagely and 

 would have killed me had I not fortunately con- 

 trolled my nerves long enough to put a couple of 

 bullets through her and stop her before she got 

 to me. 



I have heard of several other instances of grizzlies 

 making unprovoked attacks on men, which were so 

 well substantiated that I could not question the 

 truth of the reports. 



The grizzly is partially nocturnal in his habits, 

 and apparently divides his labor of obtaining food 

 and his traveling about equally between day and 

 night. It is not definitely known to what age he 

 lives in his wild state, but he is supposed to attain 

 to twenty-five or thirty years. Several have lived in 

 domestication to nearly that age, and one died in 

 Union Park, Chicago, a few years ago, that was 

 known to be eighteen years* old. 



Notwithstanding the great courage and ferocity of 

 this formidable beast, he will utter the most pitiable 

 groans and howls when seriously or mortally 

 wounded. 



Two brothers were prospecting in a range of mount- 



