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groins were very badly lacerated. That the man ever 

 lived to tell the story is the most remarkable part of it. 

 After the third mauling that the bear gave him, he said 

 he knew enough to keep quiet for some time until the 

 animal had had abundant opportunity to get well away. 

 He then managed to rise to his feet, although he could 

 not hold up his head because of the loss of the muscles 

 in the back of the neck. Supporting his head in his 

 hands he made his way to the home of his neighbor, who 

 brought him into Seward, where Dr. Baughman cared for 

 him and where, when he was seen by Elting, most of his 

 wounds had nearly healed. 



On his way out of the Kenai, Elting met another 

 man, a prospector, who also had been charged by a bear 

 within two weeks, but who had had a better advantage 

 in that he saw the bear coming for about fifty yards and 

 succeeded in killing him just as the bear got up to him. 



These incidents would seem to indicate that in the 

 Kenai Peninsula, at any rate, the brown bear is some- 

 what more ferocious than he is ordinarily assumed to be. 



Considerable snow having fallen, Elting moved his 

 camp back across Killey River and established himself 

 on the King County trail at the Httle cottonwood, 

 where he spent several days hunting moose and killed 

 a good specimen. These horns were extremely heavy, but 

 they stood up in the air so that the spread was only 56 

 inches. The palms were 15 inches across and 30 inches 

 in length, with 28 points. One moose being all that 

 Elting wished, they then moved the camp down to the 

 terminus of the King County trail on Skilak Lake expect- 

 ing to make their way leisurely back to Seward. 



Because of a very violent storm with head wind, they 

 were marooned on the edge of the lake for two and a half 



