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Having no weapons but bows and ar- 
rows, and the bad guns with which the 
traders supply them, they are obliged to 
approach very near to the bear; as no 
wound except through the head or heart 
is mortal, they frequently fall a sacrifice 
if they miss their aim. He rather at- 
tacks than avoids a man, and such is 
the terror which he has inspired, that 
the Indians who go in quest of him paint 
themselves and perform all the super- 
stitious rites customary when they make 
war on a neighboring nation. Hitherto 
those bears we had seen did not appear 
desirous of encountering us ; but al- 
though to a skilful rifleman the danger 
is very much diminished, yet the white 
bear is still a terrible animal. On ap- 
proaching these two, both Captain Lewis 
and the hunter fired, and each wounded 
a bear. One of them made his escape; 
the other turned upon Captain Lewis and 
pursued him 70 or 80 yards, but being 
badly wounded the bear could not run 
so fast as to prevent him from reloading 
his piece, which he again aimed at him, 
and a third shot from the hunter brought 
him to the ground.” 
So firmly has this old tradition of the 
existence of white bears, other than the 
polar bear, been fixed upon the minds 
of native hunters and trappers in the 
west and north, that one still hears stor- 
ies of inland regions where fierce white 
bears may be found. The killing of an 
occasional albino bear only confirms the 
tradition in the minds of these natives. 
In his notes to the Lewis and Clark 
journal Coues refers to “the countless 
repetitions, in the books of adventures 
with these ferocious beasts, insisting 
upon this color.” The remark by Gass 
that “the natives call them white” is 
significant, for it .seems that the applica-! 
tion of that name was brought about by 
the translation of the Indian name for 
the grizzly. Coues adds in his note: 
“The species is of course the grizzly, 
Ursus horribilis, new to science in 1805, 
first described sufficiently in these cod- 
ices, and not technically named till 1815.” 
Thomas Jefferson names a white bear 
( curs blanc) in his list of American 
quadrupeds appearing in “Notes on Vir- 
ginia,” written in 1781-2. But the white 
bear mentioned by Jefferson was the 
polar bear, ours blanc de la mer Glaciale. 
Jefferson was intensely interested in nat- 
ural history. No doubt the copious ref- 
erences to that subject in the journal of 
Lewis and Clark were upon his sugges- 
tion. 
If you desire to read the greatest work 
ever written in which exploration, ad- 
venture, natural history, hunting, fish- 
ing, discovery and Indian stories are 
combined, read “The History of the 
Lewis and Clark Expedition,” by Elliott 
Coues. You will be especially interested 
in the description of their several en- 
counters with the grizzly between the 
mouth of the Yellowstone and the great 
falls of the Missouri. It is the most 
comprehensive hunting story ever told. 
