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220 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
showed that he had found a large bear, caught by the head
and leg, and endeavoured to k i l l it w i t h arrows, several of
which he shot into the neck of the animal. He seems to
have been a f r a i d to approach near enough to give f u l l effect
to his weapons, and the enraged bear, having broken the snare,
flew upon h i m and tore h i m i n pieces. The man's son, a
youth of about sixteen years of age, becoming alarmed by
the lengthened absence of his father, took his gun and went
i n quest of him, f o l l o w i n g his track. On approaching the
scene of the tragedy the bear hastened to attack h i m also, hut
was shot by the l a d as he was r u s h i n g at h i m . The boy found
his father torn l i m b f r om l i m b and mostly eaten, except the
head, which remained entire. The bear, whose carcase was
seen by M r . B e l l , was a brown one of great size. Fragments
of the snare remained about his neck and leg. These brown
bears are very powerful, and the same gentleman who told
me the foregoing informed me that on the P o r c u p i n e R i v e r,
to the west of the Peel, he saw the footmarks of a large one
which, having seized a moose deer i n the river, had dragged
i t about a quarter of a m i l e along the sandy banks, and afterwards
devoured it all but part of the hindquarters. The
bones were crushed and broken by the animal's teeth, and
f r om their size and hardness M r . B e l l judged the moose to
have been upwards of a year old, when it would weigh as
much as an ox of the same age. The species of these northern
brown bears is as yet undetermined. They greatly resemble
the Vrsus arctos of the European continent, i f they are not
actually the same, and are stronger and more carnivorous
than the black bears ( Vrsus americanus), which also frequent
the Mackenzie R i v e r region. The g r i z z l y bears ( Ursus hor-ribilis)
reach the same latitudes, but do not generally descend
f r om the R o c k y M o u n t a i n s ."
F r o m all that has been narrated herein, I think it
w i l l be readily admitted that the male, at least, of
Vrsus richardsoni is a bold and courageous animal, and
when wounded is quite as brave and formidable an antag-
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| OCR | 220 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN showed that he had found a large bear, caught by the head and leg, and endeavoured to k i l l it w i t h arrows, several of which he shot into the neck of the animal. He seems to have been a f r a i d to approach near enough to give f u l l effect to his weapons, and the enraged bear, having broken the snare, flew upon h i m and tore h i m i n pieces. The man's son, a youth of about sixteen years of age, becoming alarmed by the lengthened absence of his father, took his gun and went i n quest of him, f o l l o w i n g his track. On approaching the scene of the tragedy the bear hastened to attack h i m also, hut was shot by the l a d as he was r u s h i n g at h i m . The boy found his father torn l i m b f r om l i m b and mostly eaten, except the head, which remained entire. The bear, whose carcase was seen by M r . B e l l , was a brown one of great size. Fragments of the snare remained about his neck and leg. These brown bears are very powerful, and the same gentleman who told me the foregoing informed me that on the P o r c u p i n e R i v e r, to the west of the Peel, he saw the footmarks of a large one which, having seized a moose deer i n the river, had dragged i t about a quarter of a m i l e along the sandy banks, and afterwards devoured it all but part of the hindquarters. The bones were crushed and broken by the animal's teeth, and f r om their size and hardness M r . B e l l judged the moose to have been upwards of a year old, when it would weigh as much as an ox of the same age. The species of these northern brown bears is as yet undetermined. They greatly resemble the Vrsus arctos of the European continent, i f they are not actually the same, and are stronger and more carnivorous than the black bears ( Vrsus americanus), which also frequent the Mackenzie R i v e r region. The g r i z z l y bears ( Ursus hor-ribilis) reach the same latitudes, but do not generally descend f r om the R o c k y M o u n t a i n s ." F r o m all that has been narrated herein, I think it w i l l be readily admitted that the male, at least, of Vrsus richardsoni is a bold and courageous animal, and when wounded is quite as brave and formidable an antag- |
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