The bullets were the 405 grain soft- point backed by smokeless powder so the bear possessed wonderful vitality. In certain places we found "rubbing trees" where the bears had been scratching their backs. Every bear that came along that trail stopped and rubbed just as a dog trots up to register at the corner of a store building. Some of them had rubbed bark off as high up as 8 feet from the ground. Some trees had great scars where the bear had bitten out chunks of bark and wood. Where a bear left a "rubbing tree" he would walk off and slam his feet down as hard as he could, making deep tracks in the soft ground. Shrews were quite common in the grass along the beach and I cought 3 in one trap in one day. Mr. Stephens caught two weasels that we living in and about the old cabin.