III. 



MY BIG BEAR OF SHUYAK 



As I had been fortunate in shooting bears upon 

 the Island of Kadiak and the Alaska Peninsula, 

 nothing remained but for me to obtain a specimen 

 from one of the outlying islands of the Kadiak 

 group, to render my trip in every way successful. 



I therefore determined to take my two natives 

 and hunt from a baidarka the deep bays of the 

 Island of Afognak, while Blake, not yet having 

 obtained his bear from Kadiak, went back to hunt 

 there. 



He had been extremely good to his men, and in 

 settling with them on his return from the Alaska 

 Peninsula had good-naturedly paid the excessive 

 demands they made. The result was that his 

 kindness was mistaken for weakness, and just as 

 he was about to leave his hunters struck for an 

 increase of pay. He sent them to the right-about, 

 and fortunately succeeded in filling their places. 



A sportsman in going into a new country owes 

 it to those who follow to resist firmly exorbitant 



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