8o A SPORTING PARADISE 



practice on the part of the shooter and consider- 

 able skill on that of the canoe-men. Bruin does 

 not mind a canoe in the least, so long as the 

 wind is in the right direction and he can see no 

 sudden movement of the paddles. Wary in the 

 extreme about any unusual appearance or sound 

 on the land side, he never expects dangers water- 

 ward. He looks back over his shoulder along 

 the beach, peers into the bush, and now and then 

 stops for a good sniff to windward, but he is so 

 accustomed to see floating logs, that he never 

 looks out for an enemy in that direction, and 

 takes no notice of a skilfully handled canoe. 

 Crouching down with nothing visible he can be 

 approached within thirty yards. 



The black bear is very tenacious of life, and, 

 like his relative, the grizzly bear, is dangerous 

 when irritated or wounded. The story of a bear 

 wilfully attacking a man is so contradictory to 

 my own experiences of travelling alone through 

 the forests that I can scarcely believe it, though 

 Mr. Gregory, of Lake Rosseau (a very old friend), 

 informed me that his children were followed one 

 night by an angry bear while inoffensively walking 

 from Port Carling to Port Sanfield. This 

 happened, I understood, two years ago. Audubon 



