Bear Hunting on Kadiak Island 



only interrupted by the long northern winter, and 

 that the next spring would find me once more in 

 pursuit of this great bear. 



It was not only with the hope of shooting a 

 Kadiak bear that I decided to make this second ex- 

 pedition, but I had become greatly interested in the 

 big brute, and although no naturalist myself, it was 

 now to be my aim to bring back to the scientists 

 at Washington as much definite material about him 

 as possible. Therefore the objects of my second 

 trip were : 



Firstly, to obtain a specimen of bear from the 

 Island of Kadiak; secondly, to obtain specimens 

 of the bears found on the Alaska Peninsula; and, 

 lastly, to obtain, if possible, a specimen of bear 

 from one of the other islands of the Kadiak group. 

 With such material I hoped that it could at least be 

 decided definitely if all the bears of the Kadiak 

 Islands are of one species; if all the bears on the 

 Alaska Peninsula are of one species; and also if the 

 Kadiak bear is found on the mainland, for there 

 are unquestionably many points of similarity be- 

 tween the bears of the Kadiak Islands and those of 

 the Alaska Peninsula. It was also my plan, if I 

 was successful in all these objects, to spend the fall 

 on the Kenai Peninsula in pursuit of the white 

 sheep and the moose. 



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