curiosity and proved it to be innocent that I have 

 no fear whatever of these animals when indulging 

 in this weakness of theirs. Time and again I have 

 allowed one to approach within a few yards of me, 

 and no calm observer who had watched a bear de- 

 fying his own caution to satisfy his own inquisi- 

 tiveness could mistake the nature of his ap- 

 proach." 



Drummond, the botanist, had numerous experi- 

 ences with grizzlies hi the Rocky Mountains in 

 1826. He was familiar with their curiosity. He says 

 that often they came close and stood up to look at 

 him. But if he made a noise with his specimen-box, 

 or "even waved his hand," they ran away. 



James Capen Adams hunted and trapped big 

 game from 1849 to 1859 in California and along the 

 Pacific Coast. He captured numerous grizzlies, 

 both old and young, and literally domesticated 

 them. He discusses their characteristics at length. 

 He knew them intimately, and in summing them 

 up after years of close association he says of the 

 grizzly, "He did not invite combat." 



Kit Carson, another frontiersman of long ex- 

 perience with grizzlies, in writing of them does not 

 call them ferocious. 



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