WE ARE SIIOAVX AN IMMENSE REAR. 
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at a rate -whose extreme tardiness indicated any tiling 
but a “glorious day’s sport” as having been enjoyed 
by her Nimrod rowers. 
Several of us were leaning over the quarter-deck rail, 
commenting upon their probable disappointment and 
disgust, when the quai'termaster of the watch directed 
our attention to an immense bear, who, he said, had just 
appeared upon the beach from the thick undergrowth 
which almost hid the mouth of the river, our late water- 
ing-place. We looked in the direction indicated and 
saw a huge mass, of a black colour, whose well-defined 
outlines moved slowly toward the water’s edge. There 
was no mistaking it for any thing hut a bear as it picked 
its lumbering way through the heavy sand and scattered 
rocks along the rippling beach, toward the southern 
point of the bay. He was at least a mile, probably more, 
from us, and yet his huge dimensions and every motion 
could be seen as plainly as if he had been within gun- 
shot. We thought how large he must be to show so 
plainly at such a distance, and longed to cross bis path 
with our rifles and revolvers. 
He was evidently taking Ms time to go wherever be 
was bound, for be walked along quite slowly, stopping 
every now and then with bis bead to the ground as if 
smelling or eating something, and then continuing along 
as before. W^e looked toward the bright path wliicli bad 
been left by the setting sun and wondered it its rclracted 
rays would last us another balf-bour, or it we would be 
likely to reach the beach just as it got too dark to shoot, 
and thus have a long pull for nothing. AVe wondered 
all this with excited voices, and, while wondering, cast 
