My Big Bear of Shuyak 



demands and at the same time to be fair and just 

 in all his dealings. 



I have already described bear hunting in the 

 spring, when we stalked our game upon the snowy 

 hillsides, and again on the Alaska Peninsula, where 

 we hunted across the open on foot, and also in the 

 baidarka. I will now speak of another form. 



Toward the end of June the red salmon begin 

 to run. These go up only the streams that have 

 their sources in lakes. After the red salmon, come 

 the humpbacks, and after the humpbacks, the dog 

 salmon. Both of these latter in great numbers 

 force their way up all the streams, and are the 

 favorite food of the bears, which come down from 

 the mountains by deep, well-defined trails to catch 

 the fish in the shallow streams. When the sal- 

 mon have begun to run, the only practical way of 

 hunting these bears is by watching some likely spot 

 on the bank of a stream. 



Early in July Blake and I parted, intending to 

 meet again two weeks later. My friend sailed 

 away in a small schooner, while I left with my two 

 natives in the baidarka. In Fedor's place I had 

 engaged a native by the name of Lofka. We three 

 paddled with a will, as we were anxious to reach 

 a deep bay on the north side of the Island of 

 Afognak as soon as possible. 



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