[Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookHunting the Grisly and Other Sketches CHAPTER IX 38/44
The country was very dense and hard to travel through, as there was much down timber, although here and there the sombre woodland was broken by small glades of mountain grass. At dusk they again reached camp.
The glade in which it was pitched was not many yards wide, the tall, close-set pines and firs rising round it like a wall.
On one side was a little stream, beyond which rose the steep mountain-slopes, covered with the unbroken growth of the evergreen forest. They were surprised to find that during their short absence something, apparently a bear, had visited camp, and had rummaged about among their things, scattering the contents of their packs, and in sheer wantonness destroying their lean-to.
The footprints of the beast were quite plain, but at first they paid no particular heed to them, busying themselves with rebuilding the lean-to, laying out their beds and stores, and lighting the fire. While Bauman was making ready supper, it being already dark, his companion began to examine the tracks more closely, and soon took a brand from the fire to follow them up, where the intruder had walked along a game trail after leaving the camp.
When the brand flickered out, he returned and took another, repeating his inspection of the footprints very closely.
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