In the year just before the war he had on one occasion, in Mississippi, killed sixty-eight bears in five months.

Once he killed four bears in a day; at another time three, and frequently two.

The two largest bears he himself killed weighed, respectively, 408 and 410 pounds.

They were both shot in Mississippi.
But he saw at least one bear killed which was much larger than either of these.

These figures were taken down at the time, when the animals were actually weighed on the scales.