. Big game shooting in Alaska . bear catchummy brother same way; that no good, you bet. Fearinglest I should kick him if we prolonged the conversation, andtelling him to start skinning the two bears, I walked home tocamp, and sent my third native, Nikita, out to his assistance. VII A MOVE TO THE WEST AND BERING SEA 14,7 Shortly afterwards Nicolai returned furious with rage, ashe had seen a large bear coming along the trail near him,and, so far as we could understand, had committed identicallythe same error as before, which resulted in frightening thebear away without his even getting a shot. I
. Big game shooting in Alaska . bear catchummy brother same way; that no good, you bet. Fearinglest I should kick him if we prolonged the conversation, andtelling him to start skinning the two bears, I walked home tocamp, and sent my third native, Nikita, out to his assistance. VII A MOVE TO THE WEST AND BERING SEA 14,7 Shortly afterwards Nicolai returned furious with rage, ashe had seen a large bear coming along the trail near him,and, so far as we could understand, had committed identicallythe same error as before, which resulted in frightening thebear away without his even getting a shot. I need hardly say that I was well satisfied with the resultof my trip up this river, which had yielded a bag of four bearsin five days. Although it was now the first week in July,every skin was in splendid order, a very unusual state to findthem in so far on in the season, and solely due to the late-ness of the spring, which had prevented the bears fromcoming out of winter quarters until fully three weeks aftertheir usual Small Islands off Coast of BRrrisn Columbl\. CHAPTER VIII THE LAST OF THE BERING SEA The next morning early saw us with our camp and skinspacked in the bidarkis, and by noon we reached the nativesettlement. Here we left the local native and two bidarkis,making our way in the dory and the other bidarki to thesalmon cannery, where we were welcomed by Mr. Barstowand his partner Mr. Ross. We were entertained hospitablyand housed for the night; having spent the evening watchingthe fishermen, who were mostly Italians, shooting their seine-nets, and clearing the salmon-traps. The daily catch of fishwas not heavy here, although the fish were swarming in theriver. The manager, Captain Wagner, asked my opinionabout the reason of their failure in making big looking at the traps, I concluded that the fish must berunning under the bottom of the nets, as the river-bed wasentirely composed of sand at that part, and this was alwaysdrifting down with t
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