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moving fast up stream. We followed, running, crawling, and 

 taking advantage of cover behind every tuft of grass, as the 

 bear kept stopping and looking round as if suspecting danger 

 from our quarter. Finally I got within shot of him, and gave 



Little and native Nicolai skinning a Bear, Aniakchak Bay, June 1903. 



him a bullet in the shoulder as he stood in the water. He 

 never uttered a sound, but started swimming across the river. 

 I emptied the magazine at him, getting in two or three more 

 bullets, and these finished him as he crawled up the opposite 

 bank. He was a small, light-coloured male. The natives 

 pronounced him to be a two-year-old, but I am inclined to 



