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diggings, and other evidence bespeak their presence, but, as 

 an Indian once said to me, " A bear is very hard to see." 

 The silver-tipped variety is very prevalent in the country 

 we covered, and all the grizzlies killed on this expedition 

 were of the beautiful, silver-tipped type. 



These bears, wherever found, in spite of the stories told 

 from time to time, are generally very wary and timid and 

 flee in craven fear at the sight of man ; the exceptions to the 

 rule are found when the bear is with cubs, or is cornered 

 and wounded, and in either of which situations it is a dan- 

 gerous quarry, as it then loses all fear and becomes obsessed 

 with a towering rage; its vitality is tremendous and it will 

 carry an immense amount of lead and still push the fighting; 

 and in addition it strikes a blow with its paw more powerful 

 than that of a lion. 



By reason of its wariness and timidity it is almost hope- 

 less to stalk a bear, merely by tracking it, unless you know 

 where it is at the time, for a bear is a distance traveler and 

 you may follow a trail for days without seeing the quarry. 

 The method most apt to be productive of results is to bait 

 the animal by leaving a dead sheep or caribou carcass near 

 a locality where bear signs have been recently observed. 

 The carcass should be some distance from your camp, at 

 least three or more miles away, and should be visited every 

 second day; once the bait is found by the bear, the animal 

 will seldom leave the food supply, but will spend days alter- 

 nately eating and sleeping until the carcass is entirely con- 

 sumed. All other methods of bear hunting seem to the 

 writer to be haphazard and most likely to fail. 



The grizzly eats ground squirrels which, with much labor, 

 he digs out of their burrows in the slopes in the mountains, 



