7 &MM1' * *. 
LITTLE, LANCASTER, AND 
ing no signs of life, we proceeded to don the boots. While in 
the very midst of these doings, our “dead” bear suddenly 
came to life, and, starting off through the water and into the 
thick woods on the jump, his back alone showed for a target. 
A couple of our shots hitting him “aft,” we followed the 
broad blood-trail up the hill. Thanks to his wounds, the 
bear could not travel rapidly, so we caught up to him and 
finished our work, less 
than a quarter of a mile 
from where he first 
had been sighted. 
Little, Barney, and I were off at 4.30 to-day. By 5.30 we 
sighted a fine brown bear, on a flat about two miles distant. May 20 th 
Pursuing immediately in the boat, we landed down the bay 
and proceeded to stalk, believing the bear to be feeding on 
the salt grass covering the flat where first he had been seen. 
While so advancing on the bear, he, on his part, came toward 
us unconsciously. His head and chest appeared suddenly 
above a log on a rise of ground about seventy-five yards 
away. Each party saw the other within the same instant, 
and, the bear being but a few yards from the thick under- 
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