. Rod and gun . -yards away. Hearing my yell, the bear,a large fellow, rose upon his hind legs,looked up a moment with evident surprise,and then came running toward us. Be-ing without firearms, I at least was aboutto take to my legs, w^hen Bruin, havingcovered half the distance between us,stopped. It seems that his curiosity hadbeen satisfied, for he then began againhis browsing upon the berry this bear had never seen ahuman being before, and he was curiousto learn something. The bump of curios-ity of a bear is well known to be large. The next photograph is a view of asmall la
. Rod and gun . -yards away. Hearing my yell, the bear,a large fellow, rose upon his hind legs,looked up a moment with evident surprise,and then came running toward us. Be-ing without firearms, I at least was aboutto take to my legs, w^hen Bruin, havingcovered half the distance between us,stopped. It seems that his curiosity hadbeen satisfied, for he then began againhis browsing upon the berry this bear had never seen ahuman being before, and he was curiousto learn something. The bump of curios-ity of a bear is well known to be large. The next photograph is a view of asmall lake a mile south of Glacier order to get to the latter one has topush through a forest of great densityand by way of an exasperating under-brush. Our trouble in this respect was,however, alleviated bv an animal trail. m at : ?•?=» Lake this Side Glacier Lake. Glacier Lake. over which have travelled great numbersof Rocky Mountain goat, whose whitefleeces have draped in fantastic fashionthe bushes on either side. Two great glaciers, white and glisten-ing, and without rubbish, fall from theupper plateau, embracing a black-facedmountain, and unite in a common ice-stream just above Glacier Lake. A rockybarrier stretches across the valley throughwhich the water issuing from the glaciercuts its violent way. The walls hemmingthe stream are absolutely precipitous, ris-ing perhaps one hundred feet on eitherside, wath the stream confined to a chan-nel of not more than twelve feet in amount of water melting from theseglaciers in July is enormous, as, soon af-ter issuing, it spreads over the whole val-ley, and is yet too deep and too fierce tobe forded except on horseback, even in itsshallowest part. The wonders of this region are as yetunknown and unseen, except perhaps bysome half-dozen peopl
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