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ones, and have found black and brown bears in 

 the same section, even in each other's company, 

 and will cite a personal experience I think will be 

 worth while relating: 



We had pulled camp three times and had 

 shifted high up in the main range, where we 

 finally pitched camp on the north fork of the Elk 

 River. The river at this point is nothing more 

 nor less than a good-sized brook, but it supplied 

 us with excellent water. We were not far from 

 the Wyoming line in North Colorado, and the 

 altitude was, I should judge, between 7,000 and 

 8,000 feet. It was the old story of being very 

 low on provisions (more generally called out there 

 "chuck"), so we had cut down to tw r o meals a 

 day (flapjacks and venison). On this particular 

 morning we arose in the dark, as usual, broke 

 through the ice to get our customary bucket of 

 water, and started to get w r hat little breakfast we 

 could scrape together. 



My man (whose name was George) looked at 

 me rather solemnly and said: "Well, this is the 

 last time I can make coffee, and the chuck is 

 about out, so I reckon we'd better pull up and 

 quit." I said I would like to hold on for a day 

 or two as, judging from the many indications up 

 along the ridges, bears in this section were un- 



