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into splinters, even when the log is 12 feet long, and a 

 foot in diameter. The carcase of a deer or other 

 animal is the usual bait used for this purpose. The 

 beasts are cunning, and, their suspicions once aroused, 

 it is difficult to entrap them. 



Although they usually move off in the presence 

 of man, at times they deliberately attack him. I 

 came across some well-authenticated cases. At 

 Alyeen Lake an old trapper named Dennison was 

 attacked by a grizzly. He called to his nephew, a 

 small boy, to run to the shack for help, but when it 

 came the trapper was found quite dead and frightfully 

 mutilated. During a hard winter, a boy was attacked 

 and killed, and devoured beyond recognition. The 

 lad's boots were the only part by which it was 

 possible to identify him. 



Such occasions are happily rare and belong to the 

 early age of colonization, when there were few people 

 about and animals were bolder and more disposed 

 to take the aggressive. 



From Lillooet to Caribou, in the northern part of 

 the province of British Columbia, grizzlies may be 

 discovered. A trip along the Skeena or Stikine 

 River and breaking inland on its higher reaches is a 

 certain means of an introduction, more or less exciting, 

 to his bearship. Spring is the best season, when the 

 snow is disappearing from the mountain, and a 

 sprinkling remains on the timbered slopes. His 

 tracks begin to appear about that time, and with a 



