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neglect, or choose a trail—for in those indistinct paths, 
are visible to his mind’s eye, bear that are young and 
old, lean and fat. You look into the forest, all is va- 
cant; the hunter, at a casual glance, detects where 
has passed his object of pursuit, and grows as enthusi- 
astic over this spiritual representation as if the reality 
was before him—and herein, perhaps, lies the distinction 
between the sportsman, and the huntsman. The hunter 
follows his object by his own knowledge and instinct, 
while the sportsman employs the instinct of domesticated 
animals to assist in his pursuits. 
The different methods by which to destroy the grizzly 
bear, by those who hunt them, are as numerous as the 
bears that are killed. They are not animals which per- 
mit of a system in hunting them; and it is for this reason 
that they are so dangerous and difficult to destroy. The 
experience of one hunt may cost a limb or a life in the 
next one, if used as a criterion; and fatal, indeed, is a 
mistake,—when you grapple with an animal, whose gi- 
gantic strength enables him to lift a horse in his huge 
arms, and bear it away as a prize. There is one terrible 
exception to this rule; one habit of the animal may be 
certainly calculated upon, but a daring heart only can 
take advantage of it. 
The grizzly bear, like the tiger and lion, have their 
caves in which they live; but they use them principally 
as a safe lodging-place when the cold of winter renders 
them torpid and disposed to sleep. To these caves they 

