A BEAR IN DIFFICULTY. 



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the sands, when Mike and I, with a simultaneous discharge of our 

 ritles, laid him lifeless. This was a large bear, and from the abun- 

 dant mast still hanging in the woods, and from the quantity of 

 shell-fish on the island, was very fat. We brought our canoe round 

 to the beach, and in a few hours were again with our trophy safely 

 back to the Fort. 



