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without repose, and we left liiiii to follow at his leisure in our 

 trail, which once made was far too broad to be missed. 

 Treading down ruthlessly under our feet alike the dense 

 masses of hemlock and the tall spikes of gorgeous tiger- 

 lilies, we slowly drew near to the junction of the two glens. 

 In the thickest of the wood we came upon a track which 

 seemed somewhat too broad for that of a man ; it led us to a 

 hollow trunk, the home of a bear ; but the brown gentleman 



Source of the eastern Zenes-Squali. 



was out for his afternoon's stroll, and we had not the plea- 

 sure of making his acquaintance, although we valiantly 

 took the covers oif our ice-axes, and got ready our revolvers, 

 in case of a chance encounter with a cub. We were never 

 lucky enough to see a bear, except in captivity, while in 

 the Caucasus : indeed, we scarcely saw any wild animals, 

 much to our surprise, as we had been told that bears, 



