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was in a desperate fury. There was but a moment’s time ; the party, too 
much frightened to stand the charge, “ ingloriously turned and fled,” with- 
out even pulling another trigger, and darting to the margin of the river 
jumped into the stream, losing their guns, and floundering and bobbing 
under, while their hats floated away with the muddy current. After swim- 
ming a while they were picked up by the steamer, as terrified as if the 
Bear was even then among them, though the animal on seeing them all 
afloat had made off, followed by her young. 
The following was related to us by one of the “ engages” at Fort Union : 
A fellow having killed an Indian woman, was forced to run away, and 
fearing he would be captured, started so suddenly that he took neither gun 
nor other weapon with him ; he made his way to the Crow Indians, some 
three hundred miles up the Yellow Stone river, where he arrived in a 
miserable plight, having suffered from hunger and exposure. lie 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 upwards 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 excel- 
lent vegetable also. At this unexpected and startling discovery, he 
dropped his bucket, peas and all, and fled at his fastest pace to the Fort. 
Immediately the hunters turned out on their best horses, and by riding in a 
circle, formed a line which enabled them to approach the Bear on all sides. 
They found the animal greedily feasting on the peas, and shot him without 
his apparently caring for their approach. W e need hardly say the bucket 
was empty. 
In Godman’s Natural History there are several anecdotes connected with 
the Grizzly Bear. The first is as follows : A Mr. John Doughekty, a 
very experienced and respectable hunter belonging to Major Long’s expe- 
dition, relates that once, while hunting with another person on one of the 
upper tributaries of the Missouri, he heard the report of his companion’s 
rifle, and when he looked round, beheld him at a short distance endea- 
