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raising it at all, he turned it half round and looked sneakingly 
toward us and stopped. The crew fired a shot, and he dipped 
down in the water when it stung him, but movéd on in a 
hurrying trot. Then the captain ¢7ck/ed him, scratching his 
back, when he turned completely around and ran the gauntlet 
back, when had he kept on as he was going, a few feet more, 
a good shore was before him. A few steps on his way back 
and he gets another shot, and as he leaps on the faster, another ; 
yet he reaches the bank after a hard struggle, and succumbs 
to circumstances. 
This is quite the usual way for the game, to take back on 
their tracks, thinking they will be safer upon the ground they 
have just before safely passed over. In the excitement, push- 
ing the canoe hurriedly over the rocks after the bear, we made 
a big leak in the bottom, obliging us to haul out for repairs. 
Accordingly the tent was again raised, and in a short time 
we were once more settled down ‘‘keeping house.” The 
canoe is turned bottom up to the sun to be thoroughly dried, 
and we proceed to remove Mr. Bruin’s coat and pants. This 
work, no small trifling job, kept us busy quite a while, and 
with our preparations for the night used up the rest of the 
afternoon, 
The next morning, the captain having procured a suitable 
piece of birch bark, sewed it neatly over the damaged place, 
and with gum from the forest, and grease from our pork, 
made pitch for. the edges, making the bark all as tight as 
before, after which she is soon upon the water, reloaded once 
again, and then away over these ever moving waters, skipping 
quickly o’er the pools, on through their many winding channels, 
by their rough granite walls, hugging close up to, and rubbing 
by many of their noble old sentinels as on we go, slowly et 
