. To California and back; . know how to hunt them, andmountain-lions and cinnamon bear are not in-frequently shot in the hills. The grizzly was once exceedingly of the great sports of the old mission dayswas to hunt the grizzly on horseback with theriata for sole weapon, and it is of record thatin a single neighborhood thirty or forty of theseformidable brutes were sometimes captured ina night by roping, precisely as a modern cow-boy ropes a steer; the secret of the sportsmensimmunity lying in the fact that the bear wasalmost simultaneously lassoed from differentsides and in that ma
. To California and back; . know how to hunt them, andmountain-lions and cinnamon bear are not in-frequently shot in the hills. The grizzly was once exceedingly of the great sports of the old mission dayswas to hunt the grizzly on horseback with theriata for sole weapon, and it is of record thatin a single neighborhood thirty or forty of theseformidable brutes were sometimes captured ina night by roping, precisely as a modern cow-boy ropes a steer; the secret of the sportsmensimmunity lying in the fact that the bear wasalmost simultaneously lassoed from differentsides and in that manner rigidly pinioned. ButUrsus horribilis has long since retreated to deep solitudes, where his occasional pursirers,far from approaching him with a rawhidenoose, go armed with heavy repeating-rifles,and even thus equipped are not eager to en-counter him at very close range. Cricket is naturally a favorite diversionamong the many young Englishmen who havelocated upon ranches; and yachting and polodo not want for /^AHl ^VH^^ NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
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