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to have died ; but tlie curiosity of the party not 

 being a match for their fears, the fact of its de- 

 cease was not ascertained. The man who was 

 rescued had his arm fractured, and was other- 

 wise severely bitten by the bear, but finally re- 

 covered. I have seen Bourapo, and can add 

 that the account which he gives is fully credited 

 by the traders resident in that part of the 

 country, who are best qualified to judge of its 

 truth from the knowledge of the parties. I 

 have been told that there is a man now living 

 in the neighbourhood of Edmonton House who 

 was attacked by a grizzly bear, which sprang 

 out of a thicket, and with one stroke of its paw 

 completely scalped him, laying bare the skull 

 and bringing the skin of the forehead down over 

 the eyes. Assistance coming up, the bear made 

 off without doing him further injury, but the 

 scalp not being replaced, the poor man has lost 

 his sight, although he thinks that his eyes are 

 uninjured." 



Mr. Drummond, in his excursions over the 

 Bocky Mountains, had fi:-equent opportunities of 

 observing the manners of the grizzly bear, and 

 it often happened that in turning the point of a 

 rock or sharp angle of a valley, he came sud- 

 denly upon one or more of them. On such 

 occasions they reared on their hind legs and 

 made a loud noise like a person breathing quick, 



