stream on the other side, and in doing so chanced 

 to look across and see the crushed clump of wil- 

 lows. But it took me hours to untangle this in- 

 volved trail. 



When I had followed the tracks northward for 

 more than a mile, the trail vanished in a snowless 

 place. Apparently the grizzly had planned in ad- 

 vance to use this bare place, because the moves he 

 made in it were those most likely to bewilder the 

 pursuer. He did three things which are always 

 more or less confusing and even bewildering to the 

 pursuer, be he man or dog. He changed his direc- 

 tion, he left no tracks, and he crossed his former 

 trail, thereby mixing the scents of the two. He con- 

 fused the nose, left no record for the eye, and broke 

 the general direction. 



Unable to determine the course the bear had 

 taken across this trackless place, I walked round 

 it, keeping all the time in the snow. When more 

 than halfway round I came upon his tracks leav- 

 ing the bare place. Here he had changed his direc- 

 tion of travel abruptly from north to east, crossed 

 his former trail, gone on a few yards farther, and 

 then abruptly changed from east to north. 



I hurried along his tracks. After a few miles I 

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