beaches principally. Saw any number of deer on the beach. 
They were very poor and appeared to have wintered badly. 
“Returned to Eliza Bay and spent several succeeding days 
industriously hunting that locality. Our only encouragement 
was a comparatively fresh track seen on the beach. On the 
12th we secured a variation of diet, Lancaster and Sandy, the 
engineer, going ashore and shooting some ‘hooters’ or blue 
grouse, with a 22-rifle.” 
A great quantity of geese are “in” at the end of the bay, and 
we secured some fresh eggs, finding these very fair eating. 
Sailed to Pybus Bay, and spent the 14th and 15th there. 
Saw fresh “signs” on the evening of the 14th, and by and 
by we sighted a big she-bear and a cub on a snow-field, high 
up on a mountain perhaps three miles distant and impossible 
to scale. The bear had evidently just come out their holes, 
and in trying to cross the mountain-crest had chosen the 
worst place for the attempt, After climbing and wallowing 
in the deep snow, sometimes lying down to rest before try¬ 
ing still once again, they finally gave up and returned to 
the haunt where first we had seen them. 
Early next morning Little, Barney and I were off up the 
valley, taking a route seeming to promise success at finding 
the bear, who were still visible at their old site. A four-mile 
tramp, through snow anywhere from two to four feet deep, 
’cross streams and over slippery logs, to the foot of three 
snow-fields, and across these in turn, was involved in this. 
The rising sun softened the snow, and as we ascended 
toward the steeper inclines, a small body of it loosened and 
began to slide, bringing us to a pause and to consider! Lucky 
for us that it did, since, very soon after, each of three fields 
was sliding in places, all finally breaking forth in a dull 
rumble which increased to a roar as the masses came down; 
carrying rocks, trees, before them, and piling the snow thirty, 
forty feet deep, at the mountain’s foot! 
This brought us to resolve that bear upon snow-fields 
would be safe from pursuit on our part, thereafter. 
Long sitting and standing in wet snow had made our 
feet so cold that I was afraid,—and, in fact, at times almost 
hoped,—that they might fall off. A half-mile walk restored 
the circulation later on, and the pain then eased consider- 
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