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to kave died; but the curiosity of the party not 
being a match for their fears, the fact of its de- 
cease was not ascertained. The man who was 
rescued had his arm fractured, and was other- 
wise severely bitten by the bear, but finally re 
covered. I have seen Bourapo, and can add 
that the account which he gives is fully credited 
by the traders resident in that part of the 
country, who are best qualified to judge of its 
truth from the knowledge of the parties. I 
have been told that there is a man now living 
in the neighbourhood of Edmonton House who 
was attacked by a grizzly bear, which sprang 
out of a thicket, and with one stroke of its paw 
completely scalped him, laying bare the skull 
and bringing the skin of the forehead down ovér 
the eyes. Assistance coming up, the bear made 
off without doing him further injury, but the 
scalp not being replaced, the poor man has lost 
his sight, although he thinks that his eyes are 
uninjured.” 
Mr. Drummond, in his excursions over the 
Rxcky Mountains, had frequent opportunities of 
observing the manners of the grizzly bear, and 
it often happened that in turning the point of a 
rock or sharp angle of a valley, he came sud- 
denly upon one or more of them. On such 
occasions they reared on their hind legs ‘and 
made a loud noise like a person breathing quick, 
