Alaska journal, v4410
Page 35
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
the mountain side. It was the bear. If he had not struck a log he would have rolled clear to the beach. As it was he came down a quarter of a mile. - May 29 - Spent most of the morning skinning the bear. It was a 5.6 ft. 3 inches long and in poor fur. There were several old scars on his rump and sides where he had either been shot or had fallen before. Spent the afternoon in working on the skin. - May 30 - Finished the bear skin this morning and in the afternoon Miss Alexander and I went over to the beaver dam and she took several pictures. In the evening Mr. Littlejohn and Mr. Hasselborg each got a beaver cub about 2/3 grown. About 5 o'clock when Miss Alexander and I were coming back to camp she saw 2 large bears up on the mountain side about 3 miles away. We could see them very plainly through the glasses but it was too late to go after them.