American Big Game in its Haunts 



in skinning him we found that some quills had 

 worked well up the leg and lodged by the ankle 

 joint, making a most loathsome wound. 



This bear was almost as large as the one I had 

 last shot at the head of the bay, and his pelt made 

 a grand trophy. I was much disgusted with my- 

 self that afternoon for missing my first shot. It is 

 not enough simply to get your bear, but one 

 should always endeavor to kill with the first shot, 

 otherwise much game will be lost, for the first is 

 almost always the easiest shot, hence one should 

 kill or mortally wound at that chance. 



This was the last bear that we shot on the Alaska 

 Peninsula. I had been fortunate in killing seven 

 brown bears, while Blake had killed three brown 

 and one black, and our natives had killed one 

 brown and one black bear, making a total of thir- 

 teen between the 7th and 28th of June. 



The skulls of these brown bears we sent to Dr. 

 Merriam, Chief of the Biological Survey, at 

 Washington, and they proved to be most interest- 

 ing from a scientific point of view, for from them 

 the classification of the bears of the Alaska Penin- 

 sula has been entirely changed, and it seems that 

 we were fortunate enough to bring out material 

 enough to establish a new species as well as a new 

 sub-species. 



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