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hardly is its long unwieldy body extended for the 
solicited chase, before with a rapid jump the hunter 
doubles On his track and runs back toward his first 
position. The bear is in the act of turning after him 
again when the lance is plunged into the left side 
below the shoulder. So dexterously has this thrust 
THE SINGLE HUNT. 
to be made, that an unpractised hunter has often to 
leave his spear in the side of his prey and run for his 
life. But even then, if well aided by the dogs, a cool, 
skilful man seldom fails to kill his adversary. 
Many wounds are received by the Etah Bay Esqui¬ 
maux in these encounters: the bear is looked upon as 
more fierce in that neighborhood, and about Anoatok 
and Rensselaer Bay, than around the broken ice to 
