American Big Game in its Haunts 



time I shot hurriedly, and a little behind the ribs. 

 She ran, crossing up about forty feet away, and a 

 trial with the .3040 scored, but made no 

 impression. 



Tchort caught up with her just as she fell, after 

 running a hundred feet or more, and gave us to 

 understand that he was the responsible party. We 

 tried immediately to capture the cub, which would 

 have been a rare prize, but had no success at all in 

 the thicket. The old one, though of considerable 

 age, was not a large specimen, and, with the excep- 

 tion of the head, the hair was in bad condition. 

 Length about 6 feet 4 inches ; height at shoulder 44 

 inches ; weight 500 pounds. The stomach was full 

 of salmon, gleaned from the fishing beds made all 

 along the stream. The Ozinka people did not en- 

 joy my killing a bear just outside the village. 



I caught the boat about a week later, after a 

 few pleasant days with Kidder and Blake, who had 

 turned up at Wood Island, after a very successful 

 hunt on the mainland. 



A word in regard to the Kadiak bear. Dr. 

 Merriam has proved that he is distinct from other 

 bear. That he ever reached 2,000 pounds is doubt- 

 ful in my mind, but, by comparing measure- 

 ments of skins, we can be sure he comes up to 

 1,200, or a little over. Whether the Kadiak bear 



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