150 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA ! 
coarse cake breads roasted potatoes,, and bear’s 
flesh salted, which last we found by no means 
unpalatable. The haunch of a young cub is a 
dish much esteemed, and we frequently met 
with it at the table in the upper country ; it is 
extremely rich and oily, nevertheless they say 
it never cloys the stomach. 
Towards evening we returned to the vessel, 
and the storm being much abated, passed not 
an uncomfortable night. 
At day break the next morning I took the 
boat, and went on shore to join a party that, 
as I had been informed the preceding evening, 
was going a bear-hunting. On landing, I 
found the men and dogs ready, and having 
loaded our guns we advanced into the woods. 
The people here, as in the back parts of the 
United Stales, devote a very great part of 
their time to hunting, and they are well skilled 
in the pursuit of game of every description. 
They shoot almost universally with the rifle 
gun, and are as dexterous at the use of it as 
any men can be. The guns used by them 
are ail imported from England. Those in 
most estimation carry balls of the size of 
thirty to the pound; in the States the hunters 
very commonly shoot with balls of a much 
smaller size, sixty of them not weighing more 
than one pound; but the people in Canada are 
of opinion that it is better to use the large 
