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to pronounce the word bauloo, which signifies a bear. She led 

 them with caution to a spot not more than fifty yards distant, 

 where they found her husband extended on the ground, his hands 

 and feet sucked, and chewed into a perfect pulp; the teguments 

 of the limbs in general drawn from under the skin, and the skull 

 mostly laid bare; the skin of it hanging down in long strips, ob- 

 viously effected by the talons. What was most wonderful, the un- 

 happy man retained his senses sufficiently to describe that he had 

 been attacked by several bears, the woman said seven; one of 

 which had embraced him while the others clawed him about the 

 head and bit at his arms and legs, seemingly in competition for 

 the booty. The gentlemen conveyed the wretched object to the 

 house; where, in a few hours, death released him from a state in 

 which no human being could afford the smallest assistance! 



