3802 AUDUBON THE NATURALIST. 
Indians, some three hundred miles up the Yellow 
Stone river, where he arrived in a miserable 
plight, having suffered from hunger and expo. 
sure. He escaped the men who were first sent 
after him, by keeping in ravines and hiding 
closely ; but others were despatched, who finally 
caught him. He said that one day he saw a 
dead buffalo lying near the river bank, and 
going towards it to get some of the meat, to his 
utter astonishment and horror a young grizzly 
bear which was feeding on the carcass, raised up 
from behind it and so suddenly attacked him 
that his face and hands were lacerated by its 
claws before he had time to think of defending 
himself. Not daunted, however, he gave the 
cub a tremendous jerk, which threw it down, 
and took to his heels, leaving the young savage 
in possession of the prize. — 
The audacity of these bears in approaching 
the neighbourhood of Fort Union at times was 
remarkable. The waiter, “Jean Battiste,” who 
had been in the employ of the company for up- 
wards of twenty years, told us that while one 
day picking peas in the garden, as he advanced 
towards the end of one of the rows, he saw a‘ 
large grizzly bear gathering that excellent veget- 
able also. At this unexpected and startling dis- 
covery, he dropped his bucket, peas and all, and 
fled at his fastest pace to the Fort. Immediately 
