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returned. Three days later a search party found him bitten 

 and clawed to death. Strange to say his gun had not been 

 discharged, and still more strange, his dog had also been 

 killed by the bear, who had himself succumbed to his 

 wound, and lay dead a few yards farther. Thus of all 

 those concerned in this tragedy there was no survivor. 



