vii A MOVE TO THE WEST AND BERING SEA 1^7 



Shortly afterwards Nicolai returned furious with rage, as 

 he had seen a large bear coming along the trail near him, 

 and, so far as we could understand, had committed identically 

 the same error as before, which resulted in frightening the 

 bear away without his even getting a shot. 



I need hardly say that I was well satisfied with the result 

 of my trip up this river, which had yielded a bag of four bears 

 in five days. Although it was now the first week in July, 

 every skin was in splendid order, a very unusual state to find 

 them in so far on in the season, and solely due to the late- 

 ness of the spring, which had prevented the bears from 

 coming out of winter quarters until fully three weeks after 

 their usual date. 



Small Islands off N.W. Coast of British Columbia. 



